ABBEY meaning: Religious community, historic building complex

We found 39 dictionaries that define the word abbey:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

abbey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
abbey: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
abbey: Collins English Dictionary
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Abbey, abbey: Wordnik
abbey: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Abbey, abbey: Wiktionary
abbey: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
abbey: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
AbbeY, Abbey (Derby ward), Abbey (Reading ward), Abbey (automobile), Abbey (bank), Abbey (coachbuilder), Abbey (disambiguation), Abbey (given name), Abbey (surname), Abbey, The Abbey (club): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Abbey: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
abbey: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
abbey: Rhymezone
abbey: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
abbey: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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abbey: Mnemonic Dictionary
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Abbey, abbey: Merriam-Webster
abbey: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
abbey: Infoplease Dictionary
Abbey, abbey: Dictionary.com
abbey: Online Etymology Dictionary
abbey: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
abbey: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)

ABBEY: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

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Abbey: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

abbey: Encyclopedia

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Religion (1 matching dictionary)

Abbey: Catholic Encyclopedia

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abbey: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.
▸ noun:  A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings.
▸ noun:  The church of a monastery.
▸ noun:  (British English) A residence that was previously an abbatial building.
▸ noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Abigail, from Hebrew.
▸ noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Albert, from the Germanic languages.
▸ noun:  A British surname.
▸ noun:  (London) Westminster Abbey.
▸ noun:  (Scotland) The precincts of the Abbey of Holyrood.
▸ noun:  A place name:
▸ noun:  A hamlet in Dunkeswell parish, East Devon district, Devon, England, probably named for the local abbey (OS grid ref ST1410).
▸ noun:  A small village south-east of Tuam, County Galway, Ireland (Irish grid ref M 5043).
▸ noun:  A village west of Portumna, County Galway (Irish grid ref M 7305).
▸ noun:  A village in the Rural Municipality of Miry Creek, Saskatchewan, Canada, named after a farm in Ireland.
▸ noun:  A suburb of Busselton, Western Australia, named after landholder D. Abbey.

Similar:

abbotcy, abbotship, abb., abbot, obedience, archabbot, abbate, abbot general, prior, Off., more...

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Types:

Cistercian, Trappist, Benedictine, Augustinian, Carthusian, Cluniac, more...

Phrases:

Westminster Abbey, Abbey Theatre, Abbey Road, Edward Abbey, Battle Abbey, more...

Adjectives:

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