convent schoolnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkɒn.vənt ˌskuːl/us/ˈkɑːn.vənt ˌskuːl/a school in which the teachers are nuns (= members of a female religious order)
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Types of school
- alma mater
- business school
- charter school
- coed
- coeducational
- college
- comprehensive school
- faith school
- fee-paying
- finishing school
- graduate school
- grant-maintained school
- high school
- independent school
- infant
- junior school
- madrasa
- military academy
- parochial school
- single-sex
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Examples from literature
- A group of girls from a convent school passed by.
- Her father seldom found time to visit her at her convent school, and she never went home to spend her holidays.
- She had been in a convent school until recently.
- The garden of the convent school is large, and spreads far down the slope of the hill.
- When I am gone she will attend one of the convent schools here.