Usually means: Religious community, historic building complex.
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  1. abbey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. abbey: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. abbey: Collins English Dictionary
  4. abbey: Vocabulary.com
  5. Abbey, abbey: Wordnik
  6. abbey: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Abbey, abbey: Wiktionary
  8. abbey: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. abbey: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. AbbeY, Abbey (Derby ward), Abbey (Reading ward), Abbey (automobile), Abbey (bank), Abbey (coachbuilder), Abbey (disambiguation), Abbey (given name), Abbey (surname), Abbey, The Abbey (club): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Abbey: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. abbey: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. abbey: Rhymezone
  14. abbey: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. abbey: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. abbey: Free Dictionary
  17. abbey: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Abbey: Dictionary/thesaurus
  19. Abbey, abbey: Merriam-Webster.com
  20. abbey: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  21. abbey: Infoplease Dictionary
  22. Abbey, abbey: Dictionary.com
  23. abbey: Online Etymology Dictionary
  24. abbey: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ABBEY: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Abbey: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abbey: Encyclopedia

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Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Abbey: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abbey: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Abbey: Brew Monkey Glossary
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See abbeys as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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