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Definition of
abbey noun
from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
abbey
noun
noun
NAmE
/
/
ˈæbi
/
/
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a large church together with a group of buildings in which
monks
or
nuns
live or lived in the past
a sixteenth-century abbey
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abbey
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