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How to pronounce monasteries

IPA transcription: ['mɑnəs,tɛɹiz]

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Noun

  • the residence of a religious community

Usage examples

  • In monasteries of Athonite tradition, the whole Akathist is usually inserted nightly at Compline.
  • The poor were looked after by the monasteries, until their dissolution.
  • They made several temples and monasteries.
  • All three tombs were lost after the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
  • Particularly notable are the Alexeievsky and Resurrection monasteries.
  • Dissatisfied, though, he wandered through the mountain monasteries.
  • Hence at the Dissolution of the Monasteries he received numerous grants of monastic property.
  • After the Dissolution of the Monasteries the site was sold.
  • Also you can visit two monasteries, that belong to the "Benedictinos" Communities.
  • By the twelfth century the Congregation of Cluny included more than a thousand monasteries.