convent
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5.6
- noun
- /ˈkɒnvənt/
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convento
- Many nuns find peace and solitude within the walls of the convent.
- nuns in the convent
- enter the convent
- abbess of the convent
And while she's there, the convent is officially a Lutheran convent.
- And while she's there, the convent is officially a Lutheran convent.
- Henry the Eighth didn't like Catholicism, so he closed the convent.
- And when her mother passed away, she was orphaned and she was sent to a convent to train to be like a healer basically.
- And also I went to American convent school, so I also was very American and I spoke English.
- He's running some sort of convent Y type thing in America.
Examples
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I got a convent education because of a big allowance from my mother's family.
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I've got to go to the convent to see the Mother Superior.
Fiction book (1991) -
And also I went to American convent school, so I also was very American and I spoke English.
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I want to see the children of the convent first.
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We broke bread at the convent all the time.
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I see now why the Lord took me out of the convent.
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She'd attended a convent school in Birmingham, a dark, industrial city in the English Midlands.
Fiction book (1996) -
They expect you to set up a convent, a house, a charitable institution.
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Una O'Connor has decided to give herself to the convent.
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I'm Sister Mary Bonaventure from the convent of Our Lady of Rheims.
Synonyms
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6.0
A building where monks live, work, and pray together
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6.5
A large building where monks or nuns live and worship
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8.1
A building where religious women live and work
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9.9
A building where monks or nuns live and pray
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9.1
A place where monks or nuns live away from the rest of the world
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4.8
A group of women, often nuns, who live together for a religious life
A place where people live apart to focus on religion, like a monastery or convent
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Etymology
The word convent comes from Latin parts con- 'together' and venire 'to come', so it originally meant 'coming together'. That's why a convent is a community where nuns live and work together.