Crossword-Solution: CONVENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Convent | v. i. | A coming together; a meeting. |
| Convent | v. i. | An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns. |
| Convent | v. i. | A house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery. |
| Convent | v. i. | To meet together; to concur. |
| Convent | v. i. | To be convenient; to serve. |
| Convent | v. t. | To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “CONVENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A Christian community of nuns living under monastic vows | 1 answer |
| MOTHER Superior, domain of | 1 answer |
| Nuns' home | 2 answers |
| Nuns' residence | 2 answers |
| Religious establishment | 2 answers |
| Religious house. | 2 answers |
| Religious community | 4 answers |
| friary | 4 answers |
| Nunnery | 7 answers |
| Cloister | 10 answers |
| A COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE IN A RELIGIOUS ORDER LIVING TOGETHER | 11 answers |
| Monastery | 14 answers |
| ABBEY ___ | 27 answers |
| PRAYER, place of | 28 answers |
| PLACE of worship | 34 answers |
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Sentences with CONVENT (5)
You must remember her, little Marie Tovesky, from Omaha, who used to visit here? When she was eighteen she ran away from the convent school and got married, crazy child! She came out here a bride, with her father and husband.
Why! when we were in the dear old convent together, we were always happy when we were allowed to be alone together.” “And to talk secrets.” The two young girls had linked their arms in one another’s and began wandering round the garden.
They took me also, but when I had told my story they did not detain me, other than to send me back to the convent under the care of a matron.
Without attempting to conceal her avowed preference of Wilfred of Ivanhoe, she declared that, were that favoured knight out of question, she would rather take refuge in a convent, than share a throne with Athelstane, whom, having always despised, she now began, on account of the trouble she received on his account, thoroughly to detest.
Hence Monseigneur had taken his sister from a convent, while there was yet time to ward off the impending veil, the cheapest garment she could wear, and had bestowed her as a prize upon a very rich Farmer-General, poor in family.
Quotes with CONVENT (3)
Okay, God, I thought. Get me out of this and I’ll stop my half-assed church-going ways. You got me past a pack of Strigoi tonight. I mean, trapping that one between the doors really shouldn't have worked, so clearly you're on board. Let me get out of here, and I’ll... I don’t know. Donate Adrian’s money to the poor. Get baptized. Join a convent. Well, no. Not that last one.
I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more than a few weeks, so the family has had to look after her. Believe me, there is nothing so insufferable as a saint, I wouldn't sic one on my worst enemy.
But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1954–2014).