monastery
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Religious people: monks & nuns
abbess
abbey
abbot
anchorite
ascetic
benedictine
friar
friary
habit
hermit
lay brother
lay sister
monastically
monasticism
monk
mother
novice
priory
Trappist monk
veil
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Idiom
enter a convent
A little farther along, the window of the convent seemed to be ablaze with light.
I had been brought up in a convent, but a convent is not a nursery.
The kindness of my friends has secured me a retreat in the convent of the Scottish Benedictine nuns in Paris.
When she was thirteen, her father himself took her to town to place her in the convent.
convent | American Dictionary
convent
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkɑn·vent, -vənt/
a building or group of buildings in which nuns (= religious women) live or worship