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ABBEY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A monastery ruled by an abbot
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("abbey" is a kind of...):
monastery (the residence of a religious community)
Derivation:
abbatial (of or having to do with or belonging to an abbey or abbot, or abbess)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A convent ruled by an abbess
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("abbey" is a kind of...):
convent (a religious residence especially for nuns)
Derivation:
abbatial (of or having to do with or belonging to an abbey or abbot, or abbess)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A church associated with a monastery or convent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("abbey" is a kind of...):
church; church building (a place for public (especially Christian) worship)
Derivation:
abbatial (of or having to do with or belonging to an abbey or abbot, or abbess)
Context examples:
I think they must originally have had something to do with the abbey.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
She was tired of the woods and the shrubberies—always so smooth and so dry; and the abbey in itself was no more to her now than any other house.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
“Carajo! there is a sweet face at yonder window! Don Fernando, I pray you to mark the house, and to have the maid brought to us at the abbey.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then as the cloud passed I could see the ruins of the abbey coming into view; and as the edge of a narrow band of light as sharp as a sword-cut moved along, the church and the churchyard became gradually visible.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He smiled, and said, “You have formed a very favourable idea of the abbey.”
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The nail I must have, and I will give it to the abbey of Beaulieu, so that all the folk in England may go thither to wonder and to pray.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The setting sun, low down in the sky, was just dropping behind Kettleness; the red light was thrown over on the East Cliff and the old abbey, and seemed to bathe everything in a beautiful rosy glow.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Could there be any unwillingness on the general's side to show her over the abbey?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Mayhap he had cause to be bitter against me, for his land was given to the abbey for my upbringing.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Already it is arranged that his body is to be taken with a train of boats up the Esk for a piece and then brought back to Tate Hill Pier and up the abbey steps; for he is to be buried in the churchyard on the cliff.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
