monastery

Other forms of monastery

plural

monasteries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about monastery

What does monastery mean?

monastery means "the residence of a religious community".

How many syllables are in monastery?

monastery has 4 syllables: mo-na-ster-y. The stress falls on "mo". In IPA it is /ˈmɑnəˌstɛɹi/.

Is monastery a common word?

monastery is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.