Thesaurus results for MONASTERY

monastery

noun

ˈmä-nə-ˌster-ē

as in cloister

a residence for men under religious vows Gregory Mendel worked out his concepts of genetics by doing breeding experiments using pea plants in the monastery's garden

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Recent Examples of monastery Pier Marco Tacca—Getty Images The famous mural depicts the final meal Jesus shared with his apostles before his crucifixion, and was commissioned in 1495 by the Duke of Milan for the monastery. —

Rebecca Schneid, Time, 4 Feb. 2026 The 90-year-old Dalai Lama occasionally teaches there; the monastery, practicing centuries-old traditions, was built after His Holiness received the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize for advocating nonviolent solutions to the Tibet-China conflict. —

Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 4 Feb. 2026 Near the monastery someone shouting through a bullhorn. —

Chen Yuhong, The Dial, 3 Feb. 2026 The purchase included 3,700 acres of Colorado’s most prime land, senior water rights and several monastery buildings. —

Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for monastery

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Today, visitors come to Museo di San Marco to see the frescoes and panels by Fra Angelico, as well as its courtyard, cloisters, palazzo, and garden.

— Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2026
But the most compelling aspect of these eight episodes, set a year after Industry sold off the Pierpoint bank that once employed most of its characters and scattered them to London’s various elite cloisters, is the sense that money has never really been the point of the show.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2026