priory

A monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress.

A religions house next in dignity below an abbey, and often, but not necessarily, dependent upon an abbey. Its superior is called a prior or prioress.

A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; — sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See cell, 2.

a small religious house dependent on a large monastery in some other country.

A monastery or convent governed by a prior or prioress.

religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress