Usually means: Religious communities with monastic buildings.
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  1. abbeys: Merriam-Webster
  2. abbeys: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abbeys: Collins English Dictionary
  4. abbeys: Vocabulary.com
  5. Abbey's, Abbeys, abbey's, abbeys: Wordnik
  6. abbeys: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. abbeys: Wiktionary
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  9. abbeys: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Abbeys: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Abbeys: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Abbeys: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. abbeys: FreeDictionary.org
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Abbey)

noun:  The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.
noun:  A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings.
noun:  The church of a monastery.
noun:  (British English) A residence that was previously an abbatial building.
noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Abigail, from Hebrew.
noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Albert, from the Germanic languages.
noun:  A British surname.
noun:  (London) Westminster Abbey.
noun:  (Scotland) The precincts of the Abbey of Holyrood.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  A hamlet in Dunkeswell parish, East Devon district, Devon, England, probably named for the local abbey (OS grid ref ST1410).
noun:  A small village south-east of Tuam, County Galway, Ireland (Irish grid ref M 5043).
noun:  A village west of Portumna, County Galway (Irish grid ref M 7305).
noun:  A village in the Rural Municipality of Miry Creek, Saskatchewan, Canada, named after a farm in Ireland.
noun:  A suburb of Busselton, Western Australia, named after landholder D. Abbey.
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