[ UK /ˈæbi/ ]
[ US /ˈæbi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a convent ruled by an abbess
  2. a monastery ruled by an abbot
  3. a church associated with a monastery or convent
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How To Use abbey In A Sentence

  • Frogs and newts have already been attracted to three new natural spring ponds at Abbey Meads School.
  • Former Suffragan Bishop of Southampton, the Rt Rev Jonathan Gledhill, ordained Cate as a deacon at Romsey Abbey in 2001 and the curate was priested the following year.
  • As Abbey put her stained pinafore in the sink, she wondered what in the world could make her older sister so sweet on Shad one moment, and then on Zongala the next.
  • Then the king of England entered into the country of Beauvoisis, brenning and exiling the plain country, and lodged at a fair abbey and Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
  • Abbey was snapped in a pair of skin-tight jeans just ten days after her daughter was born. The Sun
  • Elsewhere, the Abbey National is offering a #50 cashback sweetener to encourage borrowers to stick with them, ‘because life's complicated enough’.
  • In the times which we call barbarous, great benefices and abbeys were taxed in France to the third of their revenue. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • The town was kept going by a fine Abbey, whose last church still stands as one of the final triumphs of the Perpendicular style.
  • Love Downton Abbey: specifially ship Mr Carson and Mrs Hughes.
  • He cast a bell for the newly rebuilt abbey church.
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