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▸ 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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