ab·bey
noun/ˈæbi/
/ˈæbi/
- a large church together with a group of buildings in which monks or nuns live or lived in the past
（大）隐修院；（曾为大隐修院的）大教堂 - Westminster Abbey
威斯敏斯特教堂 - a ruined abbey
破败不堪的教堂
Oxford Collocations DictionaryAbbey is used before these nouns:- precinct
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French abbeie, from medieval Latin abbatia ‘abbacy’, from abbas, abbat-, from Greek abbas ‘father’, from Aramaic 'abbā. - Westminster Abbey