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: a local community or house of a religious order or congregation
especially : an establishment of nuns
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web
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
Noun
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
Verb
Latin conventus, past participle of convenire
First Known Use
Noun
13th century, in the meaning defined above
Verb
1514, in the meaning defined above
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