abbey
noun
Meaning
- nounThe office or dominion of an abbot or abbess. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
- nounA 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.
Example:
From 1199 to 1203 William Punchard was the abbot of the abbey of Rievaulx, which was part of the Cistercian order of monks.
- nounThe church of a monastery.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Very common
- #741 of 8,600 five-letter words by how often they're used
- Can be a Play Five answer
- As a first guess
- Tests likely letters better than 43% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 4 · Repeated letters: b