Abbey

ab′e, n. a monastery of persons of either sex presided over by an abbot or abbe : the church now or formerly attached to it: in New stead Abbey , ., the name has been retained after the abbatial building had become a private house:— pl. Abb′eys . [O. Fr. abaïe (Fr. abba ye )—L. abbatia , See Abba .]