priory
/ˈprʌɪəri
/noun (plural priories)
A small monastery or nunnery that is governed by a prior or prioress.Others included walks from Iona to Holy Island, Canterbury to York, and around the monasteries, abbeys and priories of Yorkshire....
- Amongst monasteries a priory was generally a smaller foundation than an abbey and was in many cases a monastery of monks subordinate to an abbey.
- St. Gobban, around the close of the 6th century founded the first of the Christian churches here, a priory for the Canons regular.
Synonyms
religious house, religious community, abbey, cloister;
monastery, friary;
convent, nunnery
rare coenobium, coenoby, beguinage
Origin
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French priorie, medieval Latin prioria, from Latin prior 'elder, superior' (see prior2).
Rhymes
- the Pennines
- the penny dropped
- the People
- the pit of one's (or the) stomach
- the plot thickens
- the Plough
- the Poconos
- the point of no return
- the poor man's ——
- the Pope
- the pot calling the kettle black
- the Potteries
- the powers that be
- the Premiership
- the Primary
- the Principality
- moccasin game
- moccasin rubber
- moccasin telegraph
- moccasin track
- moch
- mocha
- mocha brown
- mochaccino
- mochadi