- 1修道院（男修士住的地方；女修院多說 convent。佛教的常說寺院）
A monastery is a building, or a group of buildings, where monks live together. Monks are men who have given their lives to religion — in the Christian world, usually to prayer, work, and a simple shared life, often away from towns. They eat there, sleep there, and follow rules. A monastery is not the same as a church that people visit on Sunday; it is a home as well as a holy place. A house of this kind for women is usually called a , and the women are nuns, though people sometimes use monastery loosely for both. In English the word most often makes people think of Christian monks. Buddhist monks live in a temple or a monastery too; Chinese more often says 寺院 for that. The old Greek story behind the word is about being alone, though actually monks live in a community — they have left ordinary family life, not all other people.
From the word’s history
Via Old French and Medieval Latin from Greek monastḗrion, ultimately from mónos 'alone'.
經拉丁文，源自希臘文 monastḗrion，來自 mónos「獨自」。
組成From Greek monastḗrion, a place for someone who lives apart, from mónos (alone). English minster (an old word for a large church) is a doublet: the same older word that arrived by another road and changed shape.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
monasterynoun/ˈmɒnəstɹi/
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A residence for monks or others who have taken religious vows.
- The Church was in practice deprived of all public functions and prevented from teaching, publishing books and periodicals, and educating the clergy; monasteries and convents were for the most part dissolved.
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