- Church - Church building - Convent - Monastery - Monastery or convent - Religious house - A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded
from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic
building or buildings.
- Convent or monastery - Priory - An inclosed place. - A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a
court; - the series of such passages on the different sides of
any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college. - A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from
the world for religious duties. - To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from
the world; to immure.