convent
a community of persons devoted to religious life under a superior.
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.
Obsolete. assembly; meeting.
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How to use convent in a sentence
Catalina de Erauso escaped a convent at age 15 and began dressing as a man, which is when her adventure began.
Second and subsequent daughters were more likely than eldest daughters to end up in the convent.
Does Birth Order Really Determine Personality? Here's What the Research Says | Lynn Berger | April 13, 2021 | Time“So we see this spread from convent to convent before it gets to Guanajuato, where it’s made exclusively from goat’s milk” thanks to the prolific production in that region, Gomez-Rejón says.
Learn to make cajeta, a Mexican confection with multilayered sweetness and history | Adriana Velez | April 12, 2021 | Washington PostItsi was an entrepreneurial thespian who created what was arguably the first live-action haunted house, a place called Blood Manor in an abandoned convent.
Put on a frightful face: This former CNN makeup artist got his start in horror | John Kelly | October 28, 2020 | Washington PostThere’s a study that’s been running for a few decades with nuns who’ve lived in a convent their whole lives and agreed to donate their brains upon their death.
Your Brain Makes You a Different Person Every Day - Issue 91: The Amazing Brain | Steve Paulson | October 14, 2020 | Nautilus
The convent, obviously, but also the court—and even her unrequited longing for the elusive lady of her sonnets.
Sor Juana: Mexico’s Most Erotic Poet and Its Most Dangerous Nun | Katie Baker | November 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Venetian police force is headquartered in the former convent, Santa Zaccaria, another site that has seen more exciting days.
The Venetian Nuns Who Ditched Their Habits for High Fashion | Liza Foreman | September 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHis memoirs led Campagnol to a convent at the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli on Murano, where Mr. Casanova had a lover.
The Venetian Nuns Who Ditched Their Habits for High Fashion | Liza Foreman | September 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs the story goes, many Venetian nuns were noble women forced into the convent to save their families from bankruptcy.
The Venetian Nuns Who Ditched Their Habits for High Fashion | Liza Foreman | September 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPulcini had locked the front door of the convent, but now he found it open.
Catholic Nuns Aiding Africa's Battered Wives Are Raped and Murdered | Barbie Latza Nadeau | September 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDuring the whole day there was an incessant fusillade, the rebelsʼ chief stronghold being the Recoleto convent.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanThey buried her body in the Recollect convent, with the greatest pomp possible.
There were five men and three women in the circus troupe, and among the four nuns was the grave reverend mother of a convent.
The Red Year | Louis TracyWith them she spent a year, in a seclusion from the world almost as entire as that which she found in the solitude of the convent.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottHer reception at the convent, where she was already held in such high esteem, was cordial in the extreme.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. Abbott
British Dictionary definitions for convent
/ (ˈkɒnvənt) /
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
Origin of convent
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Cultural definitions for convent
A community of people in a religious order, especially nuns.
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