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Meaning monastery meaning

What does monastery mean?
Definitions in simple English

monastery

A monastery is a building where monks or nuns live. After working in the fields, the monks went back to the monastery.

monastery

the residence of a religious community

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Topics monastery topics

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Simple sentences

These monks live inside the monastery.
They visited the monastery gardens.
The monastery closed after 900 years due to a shortage of monks.
A monastery once stood here.
Ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the national anthem of the Russian Federation performed by the Sretensky Monastery Choir.
We stopped at the monastery and went inside.
St. Benedict established his first monastery on top of Monte Cassino.

Movie subtitles

This is the tomb of Vasco da Gama here in St Jerome's monastery in Lisbon.
Well, Mr. Denham, why not take a picture in a monastery?
If my wishes are not met, I may well go to the monastery.
No, I've got Cynthia just entering the monastery.
Donald, were you ever in a monastery?
Were you ever in a monastery?
Yes, I sort of got myself in a monastery and I can't get out.
Fyodor Kolychev is even further away, he is praying in the Solovyets monastery.
He is praying for us in the far-off Solovyets monastery.
He'd be safe at the St. Giovanni monastery But he won't go because he'd be cut off from us.
The Prior of Monastery is expecting us.
Something like a monastery.
There is our monastery.
The flag indicates that praying for the health of the yurta's owner are a lama a learned monk-healer and a collector of taxes for the monastery.
To strengthen ties with the population the chief of occupation and his wife with the staff are going to visit a big monastery.
It's a long way from the city to the monastery.
In a monastery?
At the early age of 8-10 they get brought to the monastery.
It was in the monastery before it was burned down.
In a monastery.
Aramis, they told me you'd entered a monastery.
He offered to hide me in a monastery.
I spoke with the prior of the monastery.
You might still be living peacefully at the monastery if I had not persuaded you.
I went to the monastery because I did not know where else to go.
If I die, my son is in the monastery at Les Foss.
We travel the length of France to the monastery at Les Foss.
Monastery at Les Foss. At last!
The monastery must be surrounded.
At the monastery.
Except a monastery cell, of course.
Now in a monastery, I suppose?
But just staying here in this monastery where I still sort of feel I'm at home chopping wood polishing the brass seeing nobody.
You have entered the monastery to obey, not to command..so be sure you are aware that all we require of you is that here you are always very useful, very just and very holy.

News and current affairs

It depicts the Solovki monastery, a historical complex on an island in the White Sea, which also served as the earliest and one of the most important camps in the Gulag.
The museum on Solovki Island fills just a few rooms inside the functioning monastery.
The worst was only averted by the last-ditch agreement between the miners' leader, Miron Cosma, and the Prime Minister, Radu Vasile, struck at a famous mediaeval monastery on the Olt river.
Last year, Russia's Patriarch Aleksei gave his blessing to a visit to Moscow by the Catholic girls' choir of the Saint Danilov monastery.
The fact that Tawang, the birthplace of the sixth Dalai Lama and a major monastery of Tibetan Buddhism, lies in Arunachal, deprives China of a vital asset in its attempts to assert total control over Tibet.
The Dalai Lama has hosted him at the Gyuto monastery in Dharamsala, India, ever since.
With both the Karmapas in India, the Indian government has sought to maintain peace by barring the contenders from the sacred Rumtek monastery in the Indian Himalayan state of Sikkim.

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