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An abbey is a large church plus the buildings beside it where monks or nuns live, or once lived. The head of that house is an or an . Some abbeys are still working religious houses; many in England are old stone churches that visitors walk through, even if nobody lives there now. It is more than a small chapel: church and home together, and usually a grand one. Though actually, people sometimes say abbey for any famous old church — that is a little stretched, but you will hear it. Westminster Abbey is the name most meet first.
修道院（附有大教堂、由院長主持的那一種；不是一般說的「教堂」）
組成From Middle English abbey, from Old French abaïe (French abbaye), from Latin abbātia, from abbas (“abbot”). The place is named after the “father” who ran it. Doublet of abbacy (the office of an abbot).
原始詞典資料15 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Abbeyname
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A diminutive of the female given name Abigail, from Hebrew.
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A diminutive of the male given name Albert, from the Germanic languages.
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A British surname.
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Westminster Abbey.
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The precincts of the Abbey of Holyrood.
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abbeynoun/ˈæbi/
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The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.
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A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings.
- Near-synonym: convent
- From 1199 to 1203 William Punchard was the abbot of the abbey of Rievaulx, which was part of the Cistercian order of monks.
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The church of a monastery.
- No, we can't have alphabetical seating in the abbey. You'd have Iraq and Iran next to each other (laugh track)... Plus Israel and Jordan all sitting in the same pew (laugh track)! We'd be in danger of starting World War III (laugh track)!
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A residence that was previously an abbatial building.
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dialectalThe abele or white poplar (Populus alba).
- Ab'bey. The great white poplar: one of the varieties of the Populus alba.
- Abbey-lug, a branch of the abele tree.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。