Usually means: Residence for religious women community.
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  1. convent: Merriam-Webster
  2. convent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. convent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. convent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. convent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Convent, convent: Wordnik
  7. convent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Convent, convent: Wiktionary
  9. convent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. convent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. convent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. convent: Dictionary.com
  13. convent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. convent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Convent (disambiguation), Convent, The Convent (Gibraltar), The Convent (disambiguation), The Convent (television series): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Convent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. convent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. convent: Rhymezone
  19. Convent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. convent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. convent: FreeDictionary.org
  22. convent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. convent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. convent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. convent: Encyclopedia

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  1. convent: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A religious community whose members live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.
noun:  The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives.
noun:  (now especially) Synonym of nunnery, a female religious community and its residence.
noun:  (India) A Christian school.
noun:  A gathering of people lasting several days for the purpose of discussing or working on topics previously selected.
noun:  A coming together; a meeting.
verb:  (obsolete) To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.
verb:  (obsolete) To meet together; to concur.
verb:  (obsolete) To be convenient; to serve.
noun:  A census-designated place, the parish seat of St. James Parish, Louisiana, United States.

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