Another word for convent

The convent would do a better job raising him than the Immortals.

Sanctuaries were managed by a convent of women who cared for the lost and injured.

Is everyone in the convent safe?

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.