Definitions for Minster

Minster min·ster

Spelling: [min-ster]
IPA: /ˈmɪn stər/

Minster is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 261 anagrams from letters in Minster (eimnrst).

Definitions for Minster

noun

  1. a church actually or originally connected with a monastic establishment.
  2. any large or important church, as a cathedral.

Origin of Minster

before 900; Middle English, Old English mynster (cognate with German Münster) Vulgar Latin *monisterium, for Late Latin monastērium monastery

Examples for Minster

I have just come from the minster, but could see nothing of him there.

If he has visited this house, it has been to see Mr Westray about the restoration of the minster.

I fancy it was he who was talking with you in the minster this afternoon, was it not?

Its minster was founded in the days of Æthelstan, but the remains are Norman work.

His stately house of Fording could be seen on a clear day from the minster tower.

It may be that he can prefer thee to some post about the minster.

But these are guerdons of yesterday in comparison with other relics the minster guards.

The Holy Well, which was inside the minster, is now covered up.

Once more the workmen began the work of building the minster.

We missed our morning mass, it will do us no harm to hear Nones in the minster.

Word Value for Minster
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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