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Definition of Minster
1. Noun. Any of certain cathedrals and large churches; originally connected to a monastery.
Group relationships: Monastery
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Specialized synonyms: Westminster Abbey
Definition of Minster
1. n. A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church.
Definition of Minster
1. Noun. a monastic church ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Minster
1. a large or important church [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Minster
Literary usage of Minster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Picturesque History of Yorkshire: Being an Account of the History by Joseph Smith Fletcher (1899)
"If\OST travellers reaching York on a journey of inspection, turn towards the
famous minster with a species of instinctive feeling. ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1830)
"Trial of Martin for selling fire to York minster.9 John Scott.—I am one of the
masons of the minster. On Monday, February 2nd, I went there a few mintues ..."
3. The year book of daily recreation and information by William Hone (1832)
"Remains of this edifice still exist; and bear the name of minster court. ...
Here, likewise, landed from France, St. Mildred the second abbess of minster. ..."
4. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1870)
"West~ minster divine worship in a particular building. ... In a college then the
minster comes first ; the clergy exist only for its sake and for the sake ..."
5. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1899)
"It is between the bare level sward which marks where New minster was and the ...
minster. Î There it rested for two centuries, which saw the tide of Norman ..."
6. The Archaeological Journal by Council, British Archaeological Association, Central Committee (1865)
"THE church or minster of Sherborne, as it now stands, exhibits in its fabric ...
At the west end of this minster are fragments, which clearly show that the ..."
7. Publications by Hampshire Record Society, Winchester, Winchester Hampshire Record Society, American peace society, Algernon Sidney Crapsey, Ernest Howard Crosby, W. Evans Darby, John Hyde De Forest, Charles Edward Jefferson, Augustine Jones, Mrs. L. J. Mead, J. H. Ral (1889)
"... Eadgar of the boundaries between the Old-, New-, and Nunna-minster, Winchester.
... Abbess of Nunna-minster, perhaps the same as St. Edith, see page 7. ..."
8. Popular Romances of the West of England, Or, The Drolls, Traditions and by Robert Hunt (1865)
"THE TOWER OP minster CHURCH. " The minster of the Trees ! a lonely dell, Deep
with old oaks, and 'mid their quiet shade, Gray with the moss of years, ..."
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