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A community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together
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convent
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Word definitions for convent in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a religious residence especially for nuns a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Convent \Con*vent"\, v. t. To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene. [Obs.] --Shak.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A convent is a community of priests, religious brothers, religious sisters or nuns, or the building used by such a community. Convent or convento may also refer to:
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A religious community whose members (especially nuns) live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows. 2 The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives. 3 A gathering of people lasting several days ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 ...
Usage examples of convent.
In the acta of the convent which began to be recorded that night, the servant declared that a supernatural force had thrown her to the ground.
Although Delaura had sought the support of distinguished members of his own order and even of other communities, none had dared challenge the acta of the convent or contradict popular credulity.
She is not beautiful like Agata and for this reason she is destined for the convent.
My mother was an Algonkian Indian--the Princess White Star, a proud and noble woman, who was separated from her people when a child and reared in a southern convent.
There are no naughty nuns of the libertine tradition here, and none of the facile anticlericalism which opponents of the Church regularly directed against the convent system.
News of the attack on the convent had spread quickly, and Father Berrendo was elected to confront Colonel Acoca.
Father Berrendo took Teresa to the convent to meet the Reverend Mother Betina.
Evie rested in the hotel until it was time for Bids to leave the convent school she attended.
It had been three whole years since Jacques Binet had left her at the convent.
Or was it her knowledge that Jacques Binet had left Eulalie at the convent that had upset him?
Venetian Fra Mauro, of the Camaldolese Convent of San Miguel de Murano, that this commission was entrusted.
Alda, the daughter, was educated in a convent at Carpi, and in his will her father bequeathed her 300 ducats if she remained with the Sisters and 600 ducats if she married.
Instantly it occurred to me that it was the convent of St Angelo, belonging to the Carthusians, which determined me to make up to it immediately and to enquire for Father Benedicta.
Croisse, at the appointed time, repaired to the convent of St Angelo, and entered into the severe order of the Carthusians, where he found, in the purified conversation of his early companion, the pious Benedicta, and that of Father Andrea, all the consolation he was capable of receiving.
THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA CHAPTER I My Family Pedigree--My Childhood Don Jacob Casanova, the illegitimate son of Don Francisco Casanova, was a native of Saragosa, the capital of Aragon, and in the year of 1428 he carried off Dona Anna Palofax from her convent, on the day after she had taken the veil.