Associations to the word «Minster»

Wiktionary

MINSTER, noun. A monastic church
MINSTER, noun. A title adopted by a church with no monastic history for reasons of pretentiousness.
MINSTER HOUSE, noun. The official house in which the canons of a cathedral live in common or in rotation.

Dictionary definition

MINSTER, noun. Any of certain cathedrals and large churches; originally connected to a monastery.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats