Convent

//ˈkɒn.vɛnt//

Synonyms for "convent" (5 found)

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Noun(1 words)
abbey

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Related words (2)

Noun(1 words)
nunnery

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Translations

73 translations across 33 languages.

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Arabic

2 entries
  • دير noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • رهبنة نسوي noun (religious community of especially nuns)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • мето́х noun (religious community of especially nuns)

Catalan

2 entries
  • convent noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • convent noun (building)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries
  • 修道院 noun (building)
  • 女修道院 noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • 尼姑庵 noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • 庵堂 noun (religious community of especially nuns)

Czech

1 entries
  • klášter noun (building)

Danish

4 entries
  • kloster noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • kloster noun (building)
  • munkekloster noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • munkekloster noun (building)

Dutch

1 entries
  • nonnenklooster noun (religious community of especially nuns)

Finnish

4 entries
  • kokous noun (gathering)
  • konventti noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • konventti noun (building)
  • konventti noun (gathering)

French

1 entries
  • couvent noun (religious community of especially nuns)

Georgian

1 entries
  • მონასტერი noun (religious community of especially nuns)

German

2 entries
  • Kloster noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • Nonnenkloster noun (religious community of especially nuns)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • zárda noun (religious community of especially nuns)

Irish

1 entries
  • clochar noun (religious community of especially nuns)

Italian

1 entries
  • convento noun (religious community of especially nuns)

Latin

3 entries
  • coenobium noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • conventus noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • monastērium (monachārum) noun (religious community of especially nuns)

Macedonian

3 entries
  • же́нски ма́настир noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • ма́настир noun (building)
  • собир noun (gathering)

Malay

1 entries
  • konven noun (religious community of especially nuns)

Middle English

3 entries
  • covent noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • covent noun (building)
  • covent noun (gathering)

Māori

1 entries
  • whare none noun (religious community of especially nuns)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries
  • kloster noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • kloster noun (building)
  • nonnekloster noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • nonnekloster noun (building)

Norwegian Nynorsk

4 entries
  • kloster noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • kloster noun (building)
  • nonnekloster noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • nonnekloster noun (building)

Old English

3 entries
  • nunnhīrēd noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • nunnmynster noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • wīfhīrēd noun (religious community of especially nuns)

Persian

1 entries
  • صومعه noun (building)

Polish

3 entries
  • klasztor (żeński) noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • konwent noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • konwent noun (gathering)

Portuguese

3 entries
  • convento noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • convento noun (building)
  • convenção noun (gathering)

Romanian

1 entries
  • mănăstire (de maici) noun (religious community of especially nuns)

Russian

4 entries
  • же́нский монасты́рь noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • конве́нт noun (gathering)
  • монасты́рь noun (building)
  • слёт noun (gathering)

Slovak

1 entries
  • kláštor noun (building)

Spanish

2 entries
  • convento noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • convento noun (building)

Swahili

1 entries
  • konventi noun (religious community of especially nuns)

Swedish

2 entries
  • kloster noun (religious community of especially nuns)
  • nunnekloster noun (religious community of especially nuns)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • kumbento noun (religious community of especially nuns)

Tocharian B

1 entries
  • tsāro noun (religious community of especially nuns)

Sample sentences

16 total sentences available.

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They said she would enter a convent.

Source: tatoeba (799917)

Mary lived in a convent for a few months.

Source: tatoeba (1030055)

A work like "In This House of Brede," which tells the story of a successful businesswoman who enters a convent in middle life, is as interesting--and for the same reasons--as a story that takes place on a planet orbiting a distant star.

Source: tatoeba (2041973)

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

Source: tatoeba (2690951)

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