What does Minster mean?
Definitions for Minster
ˈmɪn stərmin·ster
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Princeton's WordNet
minsternoun
any of certain cathedrals and large churches; originally connected to a monastery
Wiktionary
minsternoun
a monastic church
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Minsternoun
A monastery; an ecclesiastical fraternity; a cathedral church. The word is yet retained at York and Lichfield.
Etymology: minstere , Saxon.
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minster
A minster is a large or important church, often serving as a cathedral, abbey, or collegiate church, typically in a town or city. The word originally referred to any community of clergy living a communal life and working under the leadership of a monastery.
Webster Dictionary
Minsternoun
a church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church
Etymology: [AS. mynster, fr. L. monasterium. See Monastery.]
Wikidata
Minster
Minster is a village in Auglaize County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,805 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Wapakoneta, Ohio Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is adjacent to the villages of New Bremen to the north and Fort Loramie to the south in neighboring Shelby County. Minster is the home of the world’s largest yogurt plant, operated by Dannon, which employs more than 400 people. The Minster Machine Company is also headquartered in Minster.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Minster
min′stėr, n. the church of an abbey or priory, but often applied to a cathedral church without any monastic connection. [A.S. mynster—L. monasterium, a monastery.]
Etymology and Origins
Minster
The distinction between a minster and a cathedral lies in this: the former is the church in connection with a monastery, whereas the latter contains the kathedra, or chair, of a bishop.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
MINSTER
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Minster is ranked #29854 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Minster surname appeared 787 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Minster.
96% or 756 total occurrences were White.
1.4% or 11 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1% or 8 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.7% or 6 total occurrences were Black.
0.7% or 6 total occurrences were Asian.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Minster in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Minster in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of Minster in a Sentence
The nearer the minster the later to mass.
There may be some people who believe that the Prime Minster of Israel should have declined an invitation to speak before the most powerful parliament in the world on an issue that concerns the future and survival of Israel, but we have learned from our history that the world becomes a more dangerous place for the Jewish people when the Jewish people are silent.
One hopes that when out of campaign mode, the prime minster would recognize the importance of the United States strategically to Israel and would take a step or two in the direction of trying to ease the tensions.
I don't see the coalition fundamentally altering what is already an extremely tense and corrosive relationship between the prime minster and the president.
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