convent
con‧vent /ˈkɒnvənt $ ˈkɑːnvent/ noun [countable]
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English Dictionarycon‧vent /ˈkɒnv
ənt $ ˈkɑːnvent/
noun [countable][
Date: 1200-1300;
Language: Old French;
Origin: covent, from Latin conventus 'group of people who have come together', from convenire; ⇒ convenient]
a building or set of buildings where
nuns live ⇒
monastery ⇒
convent school [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
Collocationsconvent noun ADJ. Carmelite, Catholic, Franciscan, Ursuline, etc. VERB + CONVENT enter She entered a convent (= became a nun)
at the age of sixteen.
leave | establish, found, set up The nuns established a convent here in 1692. CONVENT + NOUN building, wall within the convent walls (= inside the convent)
| education, school PREP. in a/the ~ She spent her whole life in a convent.
~ of the Convent of St Saviour [TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲