conventnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkɒn.vənt/us/ˈkɑːn.vənt/a building in which nuns (= members of a female religious order) live
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Religious people: monks & nuns
- abbess
- abbey
- abbot
- anchorite
- ascetic
- benedictine
- Franciscan
- friar
- friary
- habit
- hermit
- lay brother/sister
- monk
- mother
- novice
- nun
- nunnery
- sister
- Trappist monk
- veil
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- A little farther along, the window of the convent seemed to be ablaze with light.
- I had been brought up in a convent, but a convent is not a nursery.
- The kindness of my friends has secured me a retreat in the convent of the Scottish Benedictine nuns in Paris.
- When she was thirteen, her father himself took her to town to place her in the convent.
Idiom(s)
enter a convent