as in monastery
a residence for men under religious vows you can hear the bells of the priory from the other side of the village

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Recent Examples of priory He was tutored by men from the Dominican order and he was baptized at St. Gertrude, a Dominican priory in Cincinnati. Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2025 Charlotte agrees to lead an art workshop at the priory if Graham will escort her to holiday locations around London for her new illustration job. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2024 By 1891, Pope Leo XIII raised the status of the priory to the rank of abbey. Curtis Varnell The Timepiece, arkansasonline.com, 25 Feb. 2024 Over the next decade, excavations at the site unearthed dozens of graves containing ornate artifacts and human remains, including the bodies of clergy members and wealthy donors to the medieval priory. Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2022 See All Example Sentences for priory
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Noun
  • The Vatican has denied that Prevost permitted Ray to live at the monastery.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 9 May 2025
  • In 2015, David and his wife made Texas their primary residence after retiring from their jobs at a Buddhist monastery in Woodstock, N.Y., where David was executive director for three years.
    Serge F. Kovaleski, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The latter was particularly restorative, as was the Negroni No. 2 at Le Bar, in the cloister, which adds beets and strawberries to the classic recipe.
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2025
  • When the breeze flows through the cloisters, the kites float, showing off their gravity-defying nature.
    Diana Budds, Architectural Digest, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Since then, he’s injected his flair into Venetian jewels like Abbazia San Gregorio, a former Benedictine abbey and the home of Diane von Furstenburg in Palazzo Brandolini-Giustinian.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 7 May 2025
  • Using the abbey as an observation post with gun emplacements near its foundation and in the surrounding cliffs, the Germans command the narrow mountain passes of Route 6—the road to Rome.
    Catherine Musemeche, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025

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“Priory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/priory. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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