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WESTMINSTER ABBEY
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A famous Gothic church of St. Peter in Westminster, London on the site of a former Benedictine monastery
Example:
Distinguished English subjects are buried in Westminster Abbey
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
minster (any of certain cathedrals and large churches; originally connected to a monastery)
Holonyms ("Westminster Abbey" is a part of...):
City of Westminster; Westminster (a borough of Greater London on the Thames; contains Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey)