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convent

[kon-vent, -vuhnt]

noun

  1. a community of persons devoted to religious life under a superior.

    Synonyms: ,
  2. a society or association of monks, friars, or nuns: now usually used of a society of nuns.

  3. the building or buildings occupied by such a society; a monastery or nunnery.

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  4. Obsolete.assembly; meeting.



convent

/ ˈɒԱəԳ /

noun

  1. a building inhabited by a religious community, usually of nuns

  2. the religious community inhabiting such a building

  3. Also called: convent school.a school in which the teachers are nuns

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

convent

  1. A community of people in a religious order, especially nuns.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of convent1

1175–1225; < Medieval Latin conventus; Latin: assembly, coming together, equivalent to conven ( ī ) ( convene ) + -tus suffix of v. action; replacing Middle English covent < Anglo-French < Medieval Latin, as above
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Word History and Origins

Origin of convent1

C13: from Old French covent, from Latin conventus meeting, from convenī to come together; see convene
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Example Sentences

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But her father, a government employee, wanted more for her and at the age of eight, enrolled her in a convent school where the medium of instruction was the state's official language - Kannada.

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It used to be that academia was the equivalent of a convent, where the nuns and monks went to do their thinking, and even that doesn’t exist anymore.

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His fiancée did not learn of it for some time, and she eventually took the veil, becoming a Dominican nun at a convent in Monterey — California’s first native-born Catholic sister.

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He’s even better as Irish coal-seller Bill Furlong, another man forced to fight his conscience when he discovers that his local convent doubles as a labor camp for unwed moms.

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The current owner acquired Lock House in 2003 from a property trader, who had previously purchased it after the convent relocated to Albourne.

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