American English pronunciation
How to pronounce monasteries
IPA transcription: ['mɑnəs,tɛɹiz]
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Noun
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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.