monastery's
Belonging to monks
Monastery's is the possessive form of monastery, a residence where monks or nuns live in religious community.
The word indicates belonging or association: the monastery's bell tower, the monastery's daily schedule of prayers.
It can also form a possessive before a gerund: The monastery's closing ended centuries of tradition.
Covered monastic walkway
- chapelSmall worship room
- refectoryInstitutional dining room
- dormitoryStudent living building
- bell towerStructure housing large chimes
courtyard · scriptorium · cells · ambulatory · gatehouse · chapter house · vaulted ceilings · stone walls
Monastery's chief cleric
- brothersMale children of same parents
- novicesInexperienced newcomers
- friarsMendicant religious order members
- nunsFemale religious monastics
prior · congregation · vocation · obedience · celibacy · fellowship · hierarchy · elders
Address to deity
- meditationFocused attention practice
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
solitude · silence · vespers · matins · chanting · liturgy · incense · sacred
Monk following ancient rule
- TrappistMonk of austere order
- FranciscanMendicant order member
- BuddhistFollower of Gautama's teachings
- ZenMeditative Buddhist school
Tibetan · Carmelite · Augustinian · Shaolin · Theravada · Coptic · Western · medieval
Comes to ground
- vineyardsLand cultivated for wine grapes
- groundsBasis for justification
- estatesLarge property holdings
- holdingsProperty one owns
boundaries · endowments · treasures · relics · manuscripts · archives · artifacts · artwork
cloister
Covered monastic walkway
bell tower · courtyard · scriptorium · cells · ambulatory · gatehouse · chapter house · vaulted ceilings · stone walls · arched windows
abbot
Monastery's chief cleric
- brothersMale children of same parents
- novicesInexperienced newcomers
- friarsMendicant religious order members
nuns · prior · congregation · vocation · obedience · celibacy · fellowship · hierarchy · elders · disciples
prayer
Address to deity
- meditationFocused attention practice
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
worship · solitude · silence · vespers · matins · chanting · liturgy · incense · sacred · piety
Benedictine
Monk following ancient rule
- TrappistMonk of austere order
- FranciscanMendicant order member
- BuddhistFollower of Gautama's teachings
Zen · Tibetan · Carmelite · Augustinian · Shaolin · Theravada · Coptic · Western · medieval · ancient
lands
Comes to ground
- vineyardsLand cultivated for wine grapes
- groundsBasis for justification
- estatesLarge property holdings
holdings · boundaries · endowments · treasures · relics · manuscripts · archives · artifacts · artwork · icons
monastery'sbrothel's
Of a prostitution venue
casino's · tavern's · corporation's · factory's · corporate headquarters
monastery'scathedral's
Large church's possessive
temple's · chapel's · synagogue's · mosque's · shrine's
- Buddhist monasteryResidential religious community, Eastern
- medieval monastery
- Shaolin MonasteryBuddhist temple famous for martial arts
- Zen monasteryBuddhist contemplative community
- monastery ruinsDeteriorated monastic building site
- mountain monasteryReligious community at elevation