Another word for convent

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convent

religious community, cloister, nunnery; see cloister 1, retreat 2. See syn. study at cloister.

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The convent would do a better job raising him than the Immortals.
Is everyone in the convent safe?
Sanctuaries were managed by a convent of women who cared for the lost and injured.
At Marseilles (after 410) he founded two religious societies - a convent for nuns, and the abbey of St Victor, which during his time is said to have contained 5000 inmates.
While his patroness lived in a convent of her own in Jerusalem, Rufinus, at her expense, gathered together a number of monks in a monastery on the Mount of Olives, devoting himself at the same time to the study of Greek theology.

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