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Minster

//ˈmɪnstə// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A large village in Minster-on-Sea parish, on the Isle of Sheppey, Swale borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9573).
  2. 2
    A village and civil parish in Thanet district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3164).
  3. 3
    A former civil parish in Cornwall, England, now part of Forrabury and Minster.
  4. 4
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A monastic church.

    "[F]urther south in Kent, there was St. Mildred, whose mother, in 670, founded the minster that still stands there in good nick, with nine nuns who are an ever-present help in trouble to all religions and none."

  2. 2
    any of certain cathedrals and large churches; originally connected to a monastery wordnet
  3. 3
    A cathedral church without any monastic connection.

Etymology

From Middle English mynster (see mynisterie), from Old English mynster, from Latin monastērium (“monastery”), from Ancient Greek μοναστήριον (monastḗrion, “monastery; solitary dwelling”). Doublet of monastery.

See also for "minster"

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