monkery
nounMonastic life or practices.
nounMonks considered as a group.
nounA monastery.
nounMonasticism, or the practices of monks: generally opprobrious.
nounA monastery, or the inhabitants of a monastery.
nounThe country or rural districts; also, in a collective sense, tramps or vagrants.
nounThe life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; — now usually applied by way of reproach.
nounA collective body of monks.
nounthe practices of monks; the way of life, behavior, etc. characteristic of
