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monastery
noun
[Low L. monasterium; Gr. from sole, separate.]
A house of religious retirement, or of seclusion from ordinary temporal concerns, whether an abbey, a priory or a nunnery. The word is usually applied to the houses of monks, mendicant friars and nuns.