noun.
A monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
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.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
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.
noun.
a small religious house dependent on a large monastery in some other country.