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noun (plural monasteries)

a building or buildings occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows.

(通例男子の)修道院, 僧院(→ convent)

late Middle English: via ecclesiastical Latin from ecclesiastical Greek monastērion, from monazein ‘live alone’, from monos ‘alone’.