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convent
[kon-vent, -vuhnt]
noun
a community of persons devoted to religious life under a superior.
Synonyms: ,a society or association of monks, friars, or nuns: now usually used of a society of nuns.
the building or buildings occupied by such a society; a monastery or nunnery.
Synonyms:Obsolete.assembly; meeting.
convent
/ ˈɒԱəԳ /
noun
a building inhabited by a religious community, usually of nuns
the religious community inhabiting such a building
Also called: convent school.a school in which the teachers are nuns
convent
A community of people in a religious order, especially nuns.
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of convent1
Example Sentences
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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