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Monastery

A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females.

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Abbey 76% connected

A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildin…

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Charterhouse 76% connected

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

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Friary 76% connected

Like a friar; pertaining to friars or to a convent.

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Lamasery 76% connected

A monastery or convent of lamas, in Thibet, Mongolia, etc.

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Cloister 76% connected

An inclosed place.

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Cell 70% connected

A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.

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Cubicle 70% connected

A loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory.

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Minster 70% connected

A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell…

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Scriptorium 70% connected

In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing.

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At preposition · 78% connection

Primarily, this word expresses the relations of presence, nearness in place or time, or direction toward; as, at the ninth hour; at th…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: house, religious, retirement, secusion, ordinary.
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Borneol noun · 78% connection

A rare variety of camphor, C10H17.OH, resembling ordinary camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: house, religious, retirement, secusion, ordinary.
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Convent verb · 78% connection

An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns.

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Devout verb · 78% connection

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

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Domestic adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, car…

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Galilee noun · 78% connection

A porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bo…

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Harem noun · 78% connection

The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Mohammedan families.

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Heterogynous adjective · 78% connection

Having females very unlike the males in form and structure; -- as certain insects, the males of which are winged, and the females wing…

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House verb · 78% connection

To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to ho…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: house, religious, retirement, secusion, ordinary.
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Housekeeping noun · 78% connection

Care of domestic concerns; management of a house and home affairs.

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Mansion noun · 78% connection

The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension.

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Monastical adjective · 78% connection

Secluded from temporal concerns and devoted to religion; recluse.

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Monk noun · 78% connection

A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of m…

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Monkery noun · 78% connection

The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach.

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Novice noun · 78% connection

One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist.

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Parliament noun · 78% connection

The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and t…

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Pietist noun · 78% connection

One of a class of religious reformers in Germany in the 17th century who sought to revive declining piety in the Protestant churches;…

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Post-temporal adjective · 78% connection

Situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone which usually connects the sup…

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