Abbey: alternatives and connections

A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of bui…

Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a b…

A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied…

A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or d…

Celibate state; celibacy.

A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.

The unmarried life; celibacy.

A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used co…

A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.

A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.

A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order.

Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others.;…

Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others.;…

One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a…

Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religiou…

A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining…

An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance o…

Of or pertaining to a hermit; solitary; secluded from society.