abbey

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.
  2. 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
  3. 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)!
  4. A residence that was previously an abbatial building. British,English
  5. The abele or white poplar (Populus alba). dialectal
    — Ab'bey. The great white poplar: one of the varieties of the Populus alba.

词形变化

abbeys plural abby alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

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相关词
abbeystead archabbey archabbot cloister convent friary monastery nunnery priory

词源

From A.D. 1250 in Middle English abbey, abbeye (“convent headed by an abbot”) (compare archaic English abbaye), itself borrowed from Old French abaïe, abbaïe, abeïe, abbeïe (Modern French abbaye) from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin abbātia, from Classical Latin abbās (“abbot”). Doublet of abbacy and Opatija. See abbot.
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