abbey
noun/ˈæbi/
/ˈæbi/
- a large church together with a group of buildings in which monks or nuns live or lived in the past
- Westminster Abbey
- a ruined abbey
Oxford Collocations DictionaryAbbey is used before these nouns:- precinct
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French abbeie, from medieval Latin abbatia ‘abbacy’, from abbas, abbat-, from Greek abbas ‘father’, from Aramaic 'abbā.Definitions on the go
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