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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
pri·o·ry       [prahy-uh-ree] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural -ries.
a religious house governed by a prior or prioress, often dependent upon an abbey.
[Origin: 1250–1300; ME priorie < ML priōria. See prior2, -y3]
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pri·or·y       (prī'ə-rē)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. pri·or·ies
A monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
priory 
c.1290, from Anglo-Fr. priorie (c.1240), from M.L. prioria "monastery governed by a prior," from L. prior (see prior (n.)).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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priory

noun
religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Priory

Pri"o*ry\, n.; pl. Priories. [Cf. LL. prioria. See Prior, n.] A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2.

Note: Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the prior was chosen by the inmates, and governed as independently as an abbot in an abbey; the other where the priory was subordinate to an abbey, and the prior was placed or displaced at the will of the abbot.

Alien priory, a small religious house dependent on a large monastery in some other country.

Syn: See Cloister.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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