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abbeylike

abbeylike adjective: resembling or characteristic of an abbey.

Adjective

abbeylike (comparative more abbeylike, superlative most abbeylike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of an abbey.
    • Fort Tryon Park, just north of the George Washington Bridge, is the site of the Cloisters, an imposing abbeylike structure housing the Metropolitan Museum's medieval collections.1981, William Scheller, Train trips: exploring America by rail, page 67

Forms of abbeylike

comparativemore abbeylike
superlativemost abbeylike

Origin of abbeylike

From abbey + -like.

Questions about abbeylike

What does abbeylike mean?
Abbeylike means resembling or characteristic of an abbey.
What part of speech is abbeylike?
Abbeylike is an adjective.

Words near abbeylike in the dictionary

  1. Abbeydore
  2. abbeyed
  3. Abbeyfeale
  4. Abbeyhill
  5. Abbeyleix
  6. abbeylike
  7. abbeys
  8. abbeystead
  9. abbeysteads
  10. abbeystede
  11. abbeystedes

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