Definitions for convent

convent con·vent

Spelling: [kon-vent, -vuh nt]
IPA: /ˈkɒn vɛnt, -vənt/

Convent is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 120 anagrams from letters in convent (cennotv).

Definitions for convent

noun

  1. a community of persons devoted to religious life under a superior.
  2. a society or association of monks, friars, or nuns: now usually used of a society of nuns.
  3. the building or buildings occupied by such a society; a monastery or nunnery.
  4. Obsolete. assembly; meeting.

Origin of convent

1175-1225; Medieval Latin conventus; Latin: assembly, coming together, equivalent to conven(īre) (see convene) + -tus suffix of v. action; replacing Middle English

Examples for convent

"Grandma Loekermann did it at the convent, ages ago," she told him.

Either you will marry this gentleman or you will go into a convent.

As the story goes, many Venetian nuns were noble women forced into the convent to save their families from bankruptcy.

Pulcini had locked the front door of the convent, but now he found it open.

The convent, obviously, but also the court—and even her unrequited longing for the elusive lady of her sonnets.

The manufactories, one and all, are inaccessible as the interior of a Carmelite convent.

His memoirs led Campagnol to a convent at the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli on Murano, where Mr. Casanova had a lover.

No, brother; I will put her in a convent, since she has rebelled against me.

The women are expected to be buried in a cemetery in the convent in Bujumbura.

The last scene of the second act is in the gardens of the convent of Virgins of the Sun.

Word Value for convent
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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