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noun ADJ. Carmelite, Catholic, Franciscan, Ursuline, etc. VERB + CONVENT enter She entered a convent (= became a nun) at the age of sixteen. | leave | establish, found, set up The nuns established a convent here in 1692. CONVENT + NOUN building, wall within the convent walls (= inside the convent) | education, school PREP. in a/the ~ She spent her whole life in a convent. | ~ of the Convent of St Saviour
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