Definitions for priory

priory pri·o·ry

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

Priory is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in priory (ioprry).

Definitions for priory

noun

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

Origin of priory

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

Examples for priory

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.

Word Value for priory
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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