Definition of "cenoby" []

• A place where persons live in community. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "At a limping run, he vanished into the narrow opening between the northwest corner of the manteion and the southwest corner of the cenoby."
• "Her room had been the smallest and meanest in the old cenoby on Silver Street, with a ceiling that dripped at every shower; yet it had not been too small or too mean for a window past whose threadbare drape wisps of light crept on even the darkest nights."
• "I got our cenoby ready for them, and in those days I used to look like -- like Dahlia, I nearly said, sib, but you never knew Dahlia."