Definitions for priories

priories pri·o·ry

Spelling: [prahy-uh-ree]
IPA: /ˈpraɪ ə ri/

Priories is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 168 anagrams from letters in priories (eiioprrs).

Definitions for priories

noun

  1. a religious house governed by a prior or prioress, often dependent upon an abbey.
  2. a religious house governed by a prior or prioress, often dependent upon an abbey.

Origin of priories

1250-1300; Middle English priorie Medieval Latin priōria. See prior2, -y3

Examples for priories

There was a chapel on one side, the buildings of the priory on the others.

Callahan claims that within weeks of leaving the priory, Moss “got back on drugs.”

Ah, by my finger bones, there is my sweet Mary from the priory Mill!

The novel begins with a statement: “FACT, the priory of Sion—a European secret society founded in 1099—is a real organization.”

Before buying the priory, the couple had rented a cottage nearby from the Duke of Marlborough on his Blenheim Palace estate.

His portrait hangs in one of the drawing-rooms of the priory.

BH: Now tell me about the community of women you wrote and imagined in The Chalice—a priory of Dominican nuns.

There was a letter from Aunt Rachel waiting for her at the priory.

The new establishment, however, was for monks only, and was for some time merely a priory.

Lent her by Father Christopher of the priory, forsooth—that is ever her answer.

There was a letter from Aunt Rachel waiting for her at the priory.

Lent her by Father Christopher of the priory, forsooth—that is ever her answer.

There was a chapel on one side, the buildings of the priory on the others.

The novel begins with a statement: “FACT, the priory of Sion—a European secret society founded in 1099—is a real organization.”

Callahan claims that within weeks of leaving the priory, Moss “got back on drugs.”

His portrait hangs in one of the drawing-rooms of the priory.

Ah, by my finger bones, there is my sweet Mary from the priory Mill!

Before buying the priory, the couple had rented a cottage nearby from the Duke of Marlborough on his Blenheim Palace estate.

BH: Now tell me about the community of women you wrote and imagined in The Chalice—a priory of Dominican nuns.

The new establishment, however, was for monks only, and was for some time merely a priory.

Word Value for priories
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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