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abbey
noun
there was a Benedictine abbey here in the Middle Ages:
monastery, convent, priory, cloister, friary, nunnery, religious house, religious community;
historical charterhouse, cell;
rare cenobium, cenoby.
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abbatial relating to an abbey
abbey Oxford Dictionary of English