(n.) A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females.
Example Sentences:
(1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(2) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
(3) It stands 25km north of Damascus, near the ancient Saydnaya monastery where Christians and Muslims have prayed together for centuries.
(4) The Ioannou family were originally fishermen, and still bring in the catch and cook it fresh to order • +30 22270 31487 Don't miss Just to the south of Limni is the monastery of Ayiou Nikolaou Galataki, set on the wooded slopes of the mountains overlooking the mainland.
(5) Neither of them - both now teenagers - lives in Tashilumpo monastery.
(6) In May, masked men abducted Syrian priest Jacques Mourad, from the Syriac Catholic Mar Elian monastery in Qaryatain, near the Isis-held ancient city of Palmyra.
(7) The latter rivalry may play an important role in social relations within and among Buddhist monasteries.
(8) This picturebook-romantic Romanesque monastery with a handful of houses attached is tucked between the faded pinks and yellows of laid-back seaside resort Camogli and chi chi Portofino, with its superyachts and Dior boutiques selling €1,000 sandals.
(9) I walked down into town from the pagoda and was enveloped in a happy crowd outside a monastery celebrating the full moon.
(10) Founded in 1088, the monastery’s fortress-like walls dominate the island’s skyline.
(11) SuperSub Monastery art, southern Serbia Facebook Twitter Pinterest Frescoes at Zica Monastery, near Kraljevo.
(12) In recent years, the maharishi, who broadcasts on a private satellite channel from a converted monastery in Vlodrop, in Holland, has proffered opinions on everything from crime to the Israel-Palestine conflict to how countries can best foster military defence.
(13) Gayed entered the El Suryan (St Mary) monastery in Egypt's remote western desert in July 1954.
(14) A vivid account of the Viking raid in 793, regarded as the first major attack in a century of terror for vulnerable monasteries and settlements along the coast, appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
(15) Palmyra – what the world has lost Read more They include “all the Christian churches in Mosul, most of the monasteries – some of the earliest Christian sites in the world”.
(16) Tisannyi monastery has caught fire "multiple times since 2009", it said.
(17) "For several years the authorities have been piling pressure on the monastery – and on monasteries in general.
(18) The International Campaign for Tibet said hundreds of Tibetans gathered at the monastery in Aba county, also known as Ngaba, believing the authorities were preparing to forcibly remove the monks for "patriotic education".
(19) Free Tibet said Choepel had been expelled from the monastery after Phuntsog's death.
(20) Once they landed, the warriors could forage with ruthless efficiency, as many a coastal community or wealthy monastery discovered.
Paradise
Definition:
(n.) The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation.
(n.) The abode of sanctified souls after death.
(n.) A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a state of happiness.
(n.) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
(n.) A churchyard or cemetery.
(v. t.) To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Losing paradise: the people displaced by atomic bombs, and now climate change Read more Climate change won’t be the only source of tension.
(2) "If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise.
(3) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
(4) An otitis media with effusion algorithm developed by Paradise et al and tested by Cantekin et al has become the basis for many studies of otitis media.
(5) Spain is another go-getters’ paradise, it seems: with half an entire generation out of work, self-employment among the young has surged.
(6) Elements of behaviour were described for the paradise fish on the basis of the topography, location and orientation of the animal observed in various seminatural and laboratory environments.
(7) It seemed only a matter of time before a small number of them returned to see if it was possible to recreate what was described by their lawyer, Richard Gifford, as "paradise lost".
(8) People are now calling Paradise Square Hell Square.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Children collect items from among the debris of a school for the deaf and mute, destroyed in what activists said were overnight US-led air strikes in Raqqa.
(9) • A chimp-trekking permit costs $90pp rwandatourism.com ) 12 Go barefoot in paradise: Likoma island, Malawi Kaya Mawa resort on Likoma Island, Malawi.
(10) If it does, give us the formula and make us a paradise country."
(11) "They tell me I am a great father, and that I will go straight to paradise."
(12) Okinawans finally want their sub-tropical island paradise back.
(13) There is an attempted raid on Ukraine, not from Moscow but Brussels, grabbing it by the neck and dragging it to paradise," he tweeted.
(14) A drifter, he meandered from city to city, in and out of prison, before arriving in Paradise, where he founded the first branch of the Allah Temple Of Islam in 1930 and set himself up as a black Messiah.
(15) "He is the best of the best, a pure soul, he is in the best paradise.
(16) The Palestinian comedy team Watan a Watar have enjoyed huge success with their take on an Isis propaganda video featuring a roadblock and a quiz: incorrect answers mean instant execution but these jolly, bumbling jihadis win points to get them to Paradise.
(17) It's wonderful, actually, having scrutiny of the work, especially coming from New Zealand, where there's no reviewing culture at all, so London just seems like paradise."
(18) After decades dreaming of life among olive trees and vineyards, these days for some reason, we Brits are now projecting our need for the existence of an earthly paradise northwards.
(19) With beautiful parks, a world class zoo, great public transportation and year round festivals this place would be paradise if it were not for the sweltering summers.
(20) Speaking a week after his youngest brother, Jaffar, 17 , was killed storming a Syrian government checkpoint, Deghayes said: “I cant afford to leave jihad and the journey to jannah [paradise].” Jaffar is the youngest known Briton to have died during the gruesome three-year conflict.