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Definition of abbey noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

abbey

noun
 
/ˈæbi/
 
/ˈæbi/
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  1. 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
    Topics Historyb2, Buildingsb2, Religion and festivalsb2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryAbbey is used before these nouns:
    • precinct
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    Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French abbeie, from medieval Latin abbatia ‘abbacy’, from abbas, abbat-, from Greek abbas ‘father’, from Aramaic 'abbā.
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