One of the stops is to Pema Choling Shedra, a convent that opened in the Bumthang region in central Bhutan (about 226 miles into the trail) in 2001 to create more opportunities for young girls across the country. Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2022 The film follows Alma who is about to take her vows as a nun in a Catholic convent, when her estranged brother Erik arrives. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Sep. 2022 In pricey Silicon Valley, a local Catholic parish transformed a former convent, once used to house nuns, to house educators. David Culver And Anna-maja Rappard, CNN, 11 Sep. 2022 By the end of the twentieth century, the building was serving as a convent for a community of nuns, who had converted its upper floors into monastic cells. Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022 Hotel La Compañía, which opened in April of this year in the vibrant old city of Casco Antiguo in Panama City, has a rich history that dates back to the 17th century when it was built as a Jesuit convent. Sandra Macgregor, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022 Gunmen abducted four Catholic nuns on a highway in Nigeria’s oil-producing Imo state in the southeast, a local convent said Monday, in the latest sign of widespread insecurity making road travel unsafe.Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2022 On Tuesday, Czerny commemorated the anniversary of the day Stein was killed in Auschwitz’s gas chambers by celebrating Mass in a nearby Carmelite convent in Oswiecim, a Polish town under Nazi German occupation during the war. Nicole Winfield, ajc, 9 Aug. 2022 It was named after a 13th-century sculpture of the Virgin Mary that was housed in a Carmelite convent in Madrid and famed for its miracles. Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English covent, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin conventus, from Latin, assembly, from convenire
ADJECTIVE | VERB + CONVENT | CONVENT + NOUN | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤Carmelite, Catholic, Franciscan, etc.加爾默羅會、天主教、方濟各會等的女修道院VERB + CONVENT➤enter, join當修女◇She entered a convent (= became a nun) at the age of sixteen.她 16 歲當了修女。➤leave離開修道院還俗▸➤establish, found, set up設女修道院;創辦女修道院◇The nuns established a convent here in 1692.1692 年,修女們在這兒創立了一所修道院。CONVENT + NOUN➤building, wall修道院;修道院牆◇within the convent walls (= inside the convent)女修道院內➤education, school女修會教育/學校PREPOSITION➤in a/the convent在女修道院裏◇She spent her whole life in a convent.她終生在修道院裏度過。➤convent of⋯女修道院◇the Convent of St Saviour救主女修院