westminster abbey

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   a famous Gothic church of St. Peter in Westminster, London on the site of a former Benedictine monastery

   “Westminster Abbey is the scene of the coronations of almost all English monarchs”

   “Distinguished English subjects are buried in Westminster Abbey”

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   Part ofWestminster

Questions about westminster abbey

What does westminster abbey mean?

westminster abbey means "a famous Gothic church of St. Peter in Westminster, London on the site of a former Benedictine monastery".

Is westminster abbey a common word?

westminster abbey is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.