convent

nounnunnery

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noun nunnery

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noun. building that houses monks, nuns, or priests; church

Word Origin & History

c.1200, covent, cuvent, from Anglo-French covent, from Old French convent, from Latin conventus "assembly," used in Medieval Latin for "religious house," originally past participle of convenire "come together" (see convene). Not exclusively feminine until 18c. The form with restored Latin -n- emerged early 15c. The Middle English form remains in London's Covent Garden district (notorious late 18c. for brothels), so called because it had been the garden of a defunct monastery.

Example Sentences for convent

"Grandma Loekermann did it at the convent, ages ago," she told him.

Either you will marry this gentleman or you will go into a convent.

No, brother; I will put her in a convent, since she has rebelled against me.

The last scene of the second act is in the gardens of the Convent of Virgins of the Sun.

The manufactories, one and all, are inaccessible as the interior of a Carmelite convent.

Esm O'Brien is in a convent school not thirty miles from there.

She has fled to the convent to be true to Fonseca; she must fly from the convent to bless the prince.

Doctor Macgowan had often wished that he could have all his nurses from the convent.

I will get Sister Catharine from the convent to come and take my place at once.

But she would not be shut up in a convent—no, not by fifty aunts and a hundred step-fathers!

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cloister

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retreats

sanctuary

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retreats

sanctuary

Synonyms for convent

abbey