convent

noun

Definition of conventnext
as in monastery
a group of nuns who live together She joined a convent.

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Recent Examples of convent See them In Morlaix, France, restorations of the Jacobin convent revealed hidden paintings beneath plaster, dating back to the 13th century. — Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025 Coventry attended an all-girls convent school in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. — Gerald Imray, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025 Several prostitutes rented tenements from the convent of St. Catherine, and Marguerite Busaffi, daughter of a prominent banker, owned a brothel in the city. — Joelle Rollo-Koster, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025 Indika opens with a star-collecting minigame, and flashbacks to the heroine’s life before the convent are told in pixel art scenes that feature other minigames. — The New York Times, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for convent
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  1. monastery
  2. cloister
  3. priory
Noun
  • This growing network of trails goes through rhododendron forests and past monasteries and villages, giving travelers a closer look at places only accessible on foot.
    — Mary Holland, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2025
  • In a pivotal scene in the season finale, Piper comes to the realization that her plan to stay at a monastery for a year and study Buddhism isn't going to work.
    — Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025
Definition of monastery
Noun
  • When the breeze flows through the cloisters, the kites float, showing off their gravity-defying nature.
    — Diana Budds, Architectural Digest, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The cloister houses an herbalist doling out tisanes and tinctures and a boulangerie producing sourdough loaves from flour milled on-site.
    — Jennifer Flowers, AFAR Media, 3 Apr. 2025
Definition of cloister
Noun
  • Critics pointed to his role in the dissolution of the monasteries, an initiative of the English Reformation that saw most of the kingdom’s abbeys and priories shut down, their art and relics destroyed and their wealth diverted to fill the king’s coffers.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
  • He was tutored by men from the Dominican order and he was baptized at St. Gertrude, a Dominican priory in Cincinnati.
    — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2025
Definition of priory

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