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• monasterie (obsolete)

From Middle English monasterie, from Old French monastere, from Medieval Latin monastērium (“monastery”), from Ancient Greek μοναστήριον (monastḗrion, “hermitage, monastery”), from μοναστήριος (monastḗrios, “alone, made alone”) + -ιον (-ion, “-ium”, suffix forming place names), from μονάζω (monázō, “to be alone”), from μόνος (mónos, “alone”) + -άζω (-ázō, verb-forming suffix). Doublet of minster.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒnəstɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑnəˌstɛɹi/, /ˈmɑnəstəɹi/

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monastery (plural monasteries)

2. A residence for monks or others who have taken religious vows.
   • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 460:

     The Church was in practice deprived of all public functions and prevented from teaching, publishing books and periodicals, and educating the clergy; monasteries and convents were for the most part dissolved.

• ribat (Sufi)

• (female monastery): nunnery, convent, ribat (Islamic)

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