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lamastery

lamastery is the alternative form of lamasery.

Meaning of lamasery

Noun

lamasery (plural lamaseries)

  1. A monastery for lamas.
    • purposeful melody, reminding veterans of duty on the Himalayan station, of transmundane melody performed upon ancient horns fashioned from the thigh-bones of long-departed priests, in wind-beaten lamaseries miles above the level of a sea at this distance belonging more to legend than geography.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 490

Forms of lamastery

plurallamasteries

Origin of lamastery

Blend of lamasery + monastery.

Questions about lamastery

What is lamastery the alternative form of?
Lamastery is the alternative form of lamasery.

Words near lamastery in the dictionary

  1. lamassu
  2. lamassus
  3. Lamaster
  4. lamasteries
  5. Lamasters
  6. lamastery
  7. Lamay
  8. Lamays
  9. Lamaze
  10. Lamaze technique
  11. Lamaze techniques

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lamastery (page history and authors); lamasery (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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