abbeynounCollocations from the corpusWord sets 1Corpus examplesabbeyabbeysabbeyab‧bey /Eˆ?¦bi/ noun [countable]Date: 1200-1300 Language: Old French Origin: aba?¯e, from Late Latinabbatia, from abbas; → ABBOT a large church with buildings next to it where monks and nuns live or used to live