Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly British A monastery church.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Originally, a monastery; afterward, the church of a monastery; also, from the fact that many such churches, especially in Great Britain, became cathedrals, a cathedral church which had such an origin: as, York minster; hence, any cathedral: as, the minster of Strasburg. it is found also in the names of several places which owe their origin to a monastery: as, Westminster, Leominster.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Arch.) A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (), and is also improperly used for any large church.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of certain cathedrals and large churches; originally connected to a monastery
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old English mynster, from Vulgar Latin *monistērium, from Late Latin monastērium, monastery; see monastery. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“There are a Great Many pretty Churches 16 in Number, but the minster is a noble building and holds in view at Least 30 miles before you Come to it.”
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“Obama's minster is truning on him now and more will be revealed.”
“There are two Churches; Ely minster is a Curious pile of Building all of stone, the outside full of Carvings and great arches and fine pillars in the front, and the jnside has the greatest variety and neatness in the works.”
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“All this while Ely minster is in one's view at a mile distant you would think, but go, it is a Long 4 miles.”
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“The Cathedrall or minster is Large, Lofty and very neate, the Quire pretty.”
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“The minster is a stately structure but old, ye outside has been finely Carv'd and full of Images as appears by the nitches and pedistalls wch remaine very Close all over the walls, and still just at ye front remaines some Statues of ye Kings of Jerusalem and some angels and Cherubims.”
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“Bible and the Psalter from Hebrew into Latin: and without the minster is the chair that he sat in when he translated it.”
“The gates beneath the outer arch are kept locked save on Sundays, as are frequently the gates in the railings surrounding the churchyard to the south of the minster, which is divided from the churchyard on the north side by the church itself and by railings at the east and west ends of it.”
“The minster is a Gothic church, and almost the only one in Germany which is actually finished.”
“Catholicism represented by the "minster," and he relearns his faith "from the book whose words are grav'd in light”
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