Definition of convent

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Convent (v. i.) A house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery.

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Conventionalist :: Conventionalist (n.) One who adheres to a convention or treaty.
Conventicling :: Conventicling (a.) Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle..
Friary :: Friary (n.) A monastery; a convent of friars.
Factitious :: Factitious (a.) Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste..
Convention :: Convention (v. i.) General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom; usage; conventionality.
Rector :: Rector (n.) The superior officer or chief of a convent or religious house; and among the Jesuits the superior of a house that is a seminary or college.
Covent :: Covent (n.) A convent or monastery.
Parallax :: Parallax (n.) The apparent difference in position of a body (as the sun, or a star) as seen from some point on the earth's surface, and as seen from some other conventional point, as the earth's center or the sun..
Orthodox :: Orthodox (a.) Approved; conventional.
Formality :: Formality (n.) Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality.
Bohemian :: Bohemian (n.) Of or pertaining to a social gypsy or Bohemian (see Bohemian, n., 3); vagabond; unconventional; free and easy..
Conventional :: Conventional (a.) Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal..
Conventual :: Conventual (a.) Of or pertaining to a convent; monastic.
Convention :: Convention (v. i.) The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.
Etiquette :: Etiquette (n.) The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society..
Delegate :: Delegate (n.) One sent by any constituency to act as its representative in a convention; as, a delegate to a convention for nominating officers, or for forming or altering a constitution..
Form :: Form (n.) Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer..
Attribute :: Attribute (n.) A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules..
Convent :: Convent (v. i.) A coming together; a meeting.
Conventicler :: Conventicler (n.) One who supports or frequents conventicles.
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