Synonyms for convent
ˈkɒn vɛnt, -vəntcon·vent

Princeton's WordNet

1. conventnoun

   a religious residence especially for nuns

2. conventnoun

   a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together

Matched Categories

1. • Community
   • Religious Residence

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1. conventnoun

   Synonyms:
   monastery, cloister, abbey, priory, nunnery

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1. conventnoun

   Synonyms:
   nunnery, monastery, cloister, abbey, priory

   Associated words:
   conventual, conventical, monastic

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1. List of paraphrases for "convent":

   nunnery, abbey, cloister, monastery, nun

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1. Amnesty International:

   When I look back at that visit and see now how it has been remembered, I think about myself at age 13. I was going to Catholic school, I was an altar boy, the youth group I went to took place in a convent. Everything I did, my whole life, the Church was at the center of it, and I think about how Pope John Paul II said Pope John Paul II loved me -- well, Pope John Paul II didn't.

2. Caitlin na Houlihan:

   Has Vlad-i-mir Put-in become a class-ical mir-a-cle, a chron-icled obsta-cle, a convent-icle ora-cle, a pirat-ical spect-acle, a man-acled veh-icle, a tent-acled parti-cle, a monarch-ical, art-icle, a cubi-cle recept-acle, a mon-acled cor-pus-cle, a pinn-acled ic-icle or a tri-ckled tre-acle?

3. Caitlin na Houlihan:

   Has Vlad-i-mir Put-in become a class-ical mir-a-cle, a chron-icled obsta-cle, a convent-icle ora-cle, a pirat-ical spect-acle, a man-acled veh-icle, a tent-acled parti-cle, a monarch-ical art-icle, a cubi-cle recept-acle, a mon-acled cor-pus-cle, a pinn-acled ic-icle or a tri-ckled tre-acle?

4. Dorothy Parker:

   I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.