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UK
/kˈɒnvənt/
]
[ US /ˈkɑnˌvɛnt, ˈkɑnvənt/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑnˌvɛnt, ˈkɑnvənt/ ]
NOUN
- a religious residence especially for nuns
- a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together
How To Use convent In A Sentence
- If we have spent several class periods introducing conventions of reasoned evidence in argumentative writing, we usually look for such features in student papers.
- People in no way adhere to regular social conventions online. Times, Sunday Times
- Some of my remarks here are directed toward conventional scientists, who generally refrain from commenting critically on the wild ideas of a few of their colleagues because it is bad manners.
- He made a few conventional remarks about the weather.
- Marcus Aurelius's hair stands energetically up, a nimbus of corkscrewing locks, not a bit like the conventional signs for hair that plaster so many Roman marble crania. The Forever City
- Squire Western, who, surrounded by piqueurs, and girt with the conventional cor de chasse of the Gallic sportsman, sings the following ariette, diversified with true Fielding
- By convention, this assent is always forthcoming.
- Eventually almost all postwar writers whose work departs significantly from convention have come to be labeled "postmodernist," a term that has definable meaning but that also has been used as an aid in this lashing-out, a way to further disparage such writers both by lumping them together indiscriminately and by identifying their work as just another participant in literary fashion. Postmodernism
- Conventional boilers heat up a store of water using a hot water cylinder in the airing cupboard and a header tank somewhere high - usually the loft.
- The convention plucked him from the pastorate to head the foreign mission board.