convent• Cecilia, remainingfaithful to her vow to the end, plans to enter a convent.• Dona Mencia takes place in Madrid in two different spots: in the home of Dona Mencia and in a convent.• Eve's room in the Dublin convent had no bedsidetable with a small radio on it.• Flint-based construction company David McLean wants to convert the convent, empty since 1983, for its headquarters and offices.• She had the gift of prophecy, performed many miracles and is known to have mysteriously supplied food for the convent.• It contrasted unfavourably with the structuredclarity of the convent.• They had done so well that the convent put photographs of the two girls in the local paper.
Originconvent
(1200-1300)Old Frenchcovent, from Latinconventus“group of people who have come together”, from convenire; → CONVENIENT
ADJECTIVE | VERB + CONVENT | CONVENT + NOUN | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤Carmelite, Catholic, Franciscan, etc.加爾默羅會、天主教、方濟各會等的女修道院VERB + CONVENT➤enter, join當修女◇She entered a convent (= became a nun) at the age of sixteen.她 16 歲當了修女。➤leave離開修道院還俗▸➤establish, found, set up設女修道院;創辦女修道院◇The nuns established a convent here in 1692.1692 年,修女們在這兒創立了一所修道院。CONVENT + NOUN➤building, wall修道院;修道院牆◇within the convent walls (= inside the convent)女修道院內➤education, school女修會教育/學校PREPOSITION➤in a/the convent在女修道院裏◇She spent her whole life in a convent.她終生在修道院裏度過。➤convent of⋯女修道院◇the Convent of St Saviour救主女修院