MEANING
A religious house governed by a prior or prioress.
Use it for
Religious households, local histories, remote devotional institutions.Suggest an organized religious past on a more intimate scale than a vast abbey.
Words that belong together
- abandoned priory
- priory chapel
- priory grounds
On the page
A broken sundial marked the entrance to the priory.
The last prioress had kept her correspondence beneath the priory stairs.
They rented rooms in a former priory without asking why the eastern wing was sealed.
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Word forms
- Base
- priory
Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Often subordinate to an abbey, but not invariably; not simply any small church. Plural priories.
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