convent


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
convent/ˈkɒnvənt/
noun a Christian community of nuns living under monastic vows.

■ (also convent school) a school attached to and run by a convent.

– origin ME: from OFr., from L. conventus ‘assembly, company’, from convenire (see convene).
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