🇬🇧🇪🇸 monastery - monasterio : English Lesson

Meaning of "monastery" ("monasterio"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A monastery is a quiet building or group of buildings where monks live together. Monks are people who choose to spend their lives focusing on prayer, study, and simple living. Monasteries are often found in peaceful places like mountains or forests, and they usually have big halls, small rooms for each monk, and beautiful gardens.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

I thought about living in a monastery—until I found out there’s no Wi-Fi.

If I had a monastery, the first rule would be: "No chores. Only naps."

We visited a monastery, and I learned that monks don’t shout “Tag, you're it!” very often.

If my room were as clean as a monastery, my mom wouldn’t need to yell, “Tornado zone alert!”

My cat acts like he owns a monastery—calm, serious, and judging me from afar.

She reached the monastery at dawn. The monastery bell called monks to prayer in the cold yard. Inside the monastery, men swept floors, read by candlelight, and shared quiet bread. A stranger dropped a heavy pack; the monastery door closed behind him. He sighed and joined the circle, feeling the monastery's calm settle.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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