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pri·or·y

 (prī′ə-rē)
n. pl. pri·or·ies
A monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress.
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priory

(ˈpraɪərɪ)
n, pl -ories
(Roman Catholic Church) a religious house governed by a prior, sometimes being subordinate to an abbey
[C13: from Medieval Latin priōria; see prior2]
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pri•o•ry

(ˈpraɪ ə ri)

n., pl. -ries.
a religious house governed by a prior or prioress, often dependent upon an abbey.
[1250–1300; Middle English < Medieval Latin]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.priory - religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioresspriory - religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress
cloister, religious residence - residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)
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priory

noun monastery, abbey, convent, cloister, nunnery, religious house Lindisfarne priory on Holy Island
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Translations
دَيْر راهِبات
převorství
kloster
Priorat
μονή
prieuré
rendház
klaustur
convento
manastır
小修道院

priory

[ˈpraɪərɪ] N → priorato m
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priory

[ˈpraɪəri] n → prieuré m
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priory

n → Priorat nt; (in church names) → ˜ Münster nt
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priory

[ˈpraɪərɪ] n → priorato
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

prior2

(ˈpraiə) – feminine ˈprioress – noun
the head of a priory.
ˈpriory – plural ˈpriories – noun
a building in which a community of monks or nuns live.
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de Barral was living then in a big stone mansion with mullioned windows in a large damp park, called the Priory, adjoining the village where the refined poet had built himself a house.
de Barral, expecting him every day, lived at the Priory, with a carriage and pair, a governess for the child and many servants.
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He, left alone, had promptly fallen asleep; and thus De Montfort's men found and captured him within sight of the bell-tower of the Priory of Lewes, where the King and his royal allies lay peacefully asleep, after their night of wine and dancing and song.
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Three days hence the money must be paid or else all mine estate is lost forever, for then it falls into the hands of the Priory of Emmet, and what they swallow they never give forth again."
So it came that I had to pawn my lands to the Priory of Emmet for more money, and a hard bargain they drove with me in my hour of need.
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Right glad was the traveller to see the high tower of Christchurch Priory gleaming in the mellow evening light, and gladder still when, on rounding a corner, he came upon his comrades of the morning seated astraddle upon a fallen tree.
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There are the ruins of an old priory in the grounds of Ankerwyke House, which is close to Picnic Point, and it was round about the grounds of this old priory that Henry VIII.
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We will walk to the farm at the edge of the down, and see how the children go on; we will walk to Sir John's new plantations at Barton Cross, and the Abbeyland; and we will often go the old ruins of the Priory, and try to trace its foundations as far as we are told they once reached.
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"When some critic or other chose to say that Prior's Park was not a priory, but was named after some quite modern man named Prior, nobody really tested the theory at all.
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Thorneycroft Huxtable, of the Priory School, near Mackleton, has to do with the matter, and why he comes three days after an event--the state of your chin gives the date--to ask for my humble services."
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'It's the suspicion of a priory 'tachment as is the cause of it all,' replied Sam.
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``If the reverend fathers,'' he said, ``loved good cheer and soft lodging, few miles of riding would carry them to the Priory of Brinxworth, where their quality could not but secure them the most honourable reception; or if they preferred spending a penitential evening, they might turn down yonder wild glade, which would bring them to the hermitage of Copmanhurst, where a pious anchoret would make them sharers for the night of the shelter of his roof and the benefit of his prayers.''
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