- World religion - The religion of Christians; the system of doctrines
and precepts taught by Christ. - Practical conformity of one's inward and outward life
to the spirit of the Christian religion - The body of Christian believers.
- 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.
- A male religious - Anchorite - Member of a religious community of men - Monastery dweller - Religious man - Religious recluse - A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the
world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of
men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity,
obedience, and poverty.