Westminster Abbey

American  

noun

1. a Gothic church in London, England.

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Westminster Abbey British  

noun

1. a Gothic church in London: site of a Benedictine monastery (1050–65); scene of the coronations of almost all English monarchs since William I

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Westminster Abbey Cultural  

1. Famous church located in London, England. Almost all English monarchs since William the Conqueror have been crowned there.

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Distinguished English subjects are buried there. The Poets' Corner contains the graves of great English writers, including Geoffrey Chaucer and Robert Browning.

Example Sentences

Princess Catherine has attended a service at Westminster Abbey to commemorate the war dead of Australia and New Zealand.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026

The annual celebration of the Commonwealth, to be marked on Monday with a service at Westminster Abbey, will see the biggest gathering of senior royals since the arrest of his brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

Of all the tunes you would expect to hear at the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey, a Bollywood song isn't on the list.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025

Recorded inside Windsor Castle, the moment was shown at the start of a replay on the ITV channel of the annual "Together at Christmas" service at London's Westminster Abbey that Catherine hosted in early December.

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

And not long after that it was he himself who had the task of crowning our present Queen in Westminster Abbey with half the world watching him on television.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl