A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females.
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. John Keats
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. Quentin Crisp
He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like. Derek Jacobi
I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult. Ken Follett
I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women. Joseph McCabe
monastery in Dutch is klooster, mannenklooster
monastery in French is couvent, conventuelle
monastery in German is Kloster
monastery in Hungarian is kolostor
monastery in Italian is convento
monastery in Latin is monasterium, abbatia
monastery in Spanish is convento, monasterio
monastery in Swedish is kloster, munkkloster
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