Convent synonyms

kŏn'vənt, -vĕnt'

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retreat (related)
The act or process of moving back or away, especially from something hazardous, formidable, or unpleasant:
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monastery
The definition of a monastery is the building where a group of religious people such as monks or nuns live together.
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cloister
A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:
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nunnery
(Archaic) a place of residence for nuns; a convent
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cenobitic
Of or pertaining to a cenobite
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abbey
A church or building belonging to an abbey
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cenobite
A member of a religious order living in a monastery or convent
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community
A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.
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conventical
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monastic
A person with monastic ways; a monk.
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priory. associatedwords: conventual
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sanctuary
The consecrated (sacred) area of a church or temple around its tabernacle or altar.
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solitude
The state of being secluded or uninhabited:
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friary (related)
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carmelite (related)
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nun (related)
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prioress (related)
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chantry (related)
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benedictine (related)
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monastry (related)
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abbess (related)
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monk (related)
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chapel (related)
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conventual (related)
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religious community
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seclusion
The act of secluding:
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Convent Sentence Examples

  • 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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