priories
Meaning of priories
plural noun
a small monastery or nunnery that is governed by a prior or prioress.
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French priorie, medieval Latin prioria, from Latin prior ‘elder, superior’ (see prior2).
Information about priories
- It is a name.
- The singular form of priories is: priory.
- Languages in which priories is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of priories
pri-or-ies
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- priories is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
priories synonyms
Meaning the building or buildings occupied by a community of monks or nuns:
Meaning a convent or monastery:
Meaning a building or buildings occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows:
Meaning a building or community occupied by or consisting of friars:
Meaning a Christian community of nuns living together under monastic vows:
Meaning a building or group of buildings in which nuns live as a religious community; a convent:
Meaning a monastery:
Meaning a house for members of a lay sisterhood in the Low Countries:
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