: a local community or house of a religious order or congregation
especially
: an establishment of nuns
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Lainey Seyler, Journal Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2024
Everett Collection There are, miraculously enough, two 2024 horror films about an American nun who joins a convent in Italy where she’s impregnated with something unholy as part of an evil Church plot.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
After the woman’s family sent her away to a convent in Avignon, d'Aubigny came to rescue her.
—Quispe López, Them, 15 Oct. 2024
The planners lead them to their dream venue Desierto De Los Leones, a 400-year-old convent in a forest of old-growth trees just outside of the city.
—Shelby Wax, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
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Noun
Those churches often had schools, convents, gymnasiums and rectories.
—Lainey Seyler, Journal Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2024
Everett Collection There are, miraculously enough, two 2024 horror films about an American nun who joins a convent in Italy where she’s impregnated with something unholy as part of an evil Church plot.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
After the woman’s family sent her away to a convent in Avignon, d'Aubigny came to rescue her.
—Quispe López, Them, 15 Oct. 2024
The planners lead them to their dream venue Desierto De Los Leones, a 400-year-old convent in a forest of old-growth trees just outside of the city.
—Shelby Wax, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Convent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/convent. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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