Convent
['kɒnv(ə)nt] or ['kɑnvɛnt]
Definition
(noun.) a religious residence especially for nuns.
(noun.) a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together.
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Definition
(v. i.) A coming together; a meeting.
(v. i.) An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns.
(v. i.) A house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery.
(v. i.) To meet together; to concur.
(v. i.) To be convenient; to serve.
(v. t.) To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Monastery, cloister, abbey, priory, nunnery.
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Definition
n. an association of persons secluded from the world and devoted to a religious life: the house in which they live a monastery or nunnery.—adj. Convent′ual belonging to a convent.—n. a monk or nun; a member of one of the two divisions of the Franciscans following a mitigated rule—the other being the Observants.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeking refuge in a convent, denotes that your future will be signally free from care and enemies, unless on entering the building you encounter a priest. If so, you will seek often and in vain for relief from worldly cares and mind worry. For a young girl to dream of seeing a convent, her virtue and honestly will be questioned.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A place of retirement for woman who wish for leisure to meditate upon the vice of idleness.
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Examples
- They thought much more of alighting at the convent door, and warming themselves at the convent fire. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Ghostly deep as is the stillness of this convent, it is only eleven. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It had been a Cistercian Convent in old days, when the Smithfield, which is contiguous to it, was a tournament ground. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Darkness, outstripping some visitors on mules, had risen thus to the rough convent walls, when those travellers were yet climbing the mountain. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- There went a tradition that Madame Beck's house had in old days been a convent. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Heloise entered a convent and gave good-bye to the world and its pleasures for all time. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In his seat he had nothing of the awkwardness of the convent, but displayed the easy and habitual grace of a well-trained horseman. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I have composed many a homily on her back, to the edification of my brethren of the convent, and many poor Christian souls. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The sisters in the convent used to tell me of a day of judgment, when everything is coming to light;--won't there be vengeance, then! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She was a child again--and had wandered back through a forty years' wilderness to her convent garden. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Here, however, in this land of convents and confessionals, such a presence as his was not to be suffered with impunity in a pensionnat de demoiselles. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The pauper and the miser are as free as any in the Catholic Convents of Palestine. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Have you then convents, to one of which you mean to retire? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The castles, churches and convents of the middle ages had their often highly ornamental locks and their warders to guard and open them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Among them are manuscripts from the archives of nearly two thousand families, monasteries and convents. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Catholic Convents are a priceless blessing to the poor. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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