PRIORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does priory mean? 

• PRIORY (noun)
  The noun PRIORY has 1 sense:

1. religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress

  Familiarity information: PRIORY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRIORY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("priory" is a kind of...):

cloister; religious residence (residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery))

 Context examples 

I have learned it by looking from my own chamber window and marking these poor monks of the priory, their weary life, their profitless round.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Pardieu! said the knight, this David Micheldene must be one of those Lollards about whom Father Christopher of the priory had so much to say.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Father Christopher comes over after nones from the priory, but he is stricken with years and slow of speech, so that she gets small profit from his teaching.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Lent her by Father Christopher of the priory, forsooth—that is ever her answer.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Very quiet was the wedding in the old priory church at Christchurch, where Father Christopher read the service, and there were few to see save the Lady Loring and John, and a dozen bowmen from the castle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he had but to bring out the old romance book from the priory, with befingered cover of sheepskin and gold letters upon a purple ground, to entice her wayward mind back to the paths of learning.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)