Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A place where persons live in community.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word cenoby.

Examples

  • There's only one other sibyl in my cenoby since Maytera Rose passed on, Maytera Marble.

    Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

  • If I'd had to live by myself in the cenoby with just Maytera Rose and that chem I couldn't have stood it.

    Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

  • Her room had been the smallest and meanest in the old cenoby on Silver Street, with a ceiling that dripped at every shower; yet it had not been too small or too mean for a window past whose threadbare drape wisps of light crept on even the darkest nights.

    Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

  • They sat, Remora tucking the rich overrobe he wore around his legs, Maytera Mint as she might have in the cenoby, her delicate hands folded in her lap, and her head bowed.

    Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

  • Maytera has a little garden back at the cenoby, Your Eminence.

    Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

  • The room was twice as large as her longed-for bedroom in the cenoby.

    Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

  • At a limping run, he vanished into the narrow opening between the northwest corner of the manteion and the southwest corner of the cenoby.

    Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

  • I got our cenoby ready for them, and in those days I used to look like -- like Dahlia, I nearly said, sib, but you never knew Dahlia.

    Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

  • She had worn one because her mother, and subsequently Maytera Rose, had said she must; she looked no different now in this yellowed chemise than she had in her own in the cenoby.

    Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

  • Maytera Marble, who had gone to the cenoby for a sheet, had not yet returned.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • a religious community.
    "At a limping run, he vanished into the narrow opening between the northwest corner of the manteion and the southwest corner of the cenoby."

    June 17, 2015

  • To lustful dyspeptic King Henery

    Contemplative types were the enemy,

    So monks and their abbots

    Were chased out like rabbits

    And torches were put to each cenoby.

    September 9, 2017