convento
Nuns live here
A convento is a convent or monastery—a religious community house, especially in Spanish, Italian, or Portuguese-speaking contexts.
The term appears in English primarily in historical or architectural discussions of Catholic institutions in Latin America and the Mediterranean: The old convento now serves as a museum.
Ruins of the convento stand beside the mission church.
Religious seclusion dwelling
- abbeyMonastic house of worship
- cloisterCovered monastic walkway
- friaryMendicant monks' residence
- nunneryMonastery for women
priory · chapel · refectory · cell · vespers · habit · vows · enclosure
Covered monastic walkway
- courtyardEnclosed open-air space
- bell towerStructure housing large chimes
- dormitoryStudent living building
- refectoryInstitutional dining room
chapel · arcade · colonnade · garden · fountain · stone walls · vaulted ceiling · cells
Breaking up completely
- secularizationReligion losing social significance
- confiscationSeizure by authority
- reformationProcess of improving institutions
- suppressionForcible prevention or concealment
patrimony · manuscript · illumination · library · archive · relic · pilgrimage · medieval
monastery
Religious seclusion dwelling
nunnery · priory · chapel · refectory · cell · vespers · habit · vows · enclosure · contemplation
cloister
Covered monastic walkway
- courtyardEnclosed open-air space
- bell towerStructure housing large chimes
- dormitoryStudent living building
refectory · chapel · arcade · colonnade · garden · fountain · stone walls · vaulted ceiling · cells · scriptorium
dissolution
Breaking up completely
- secularizationReligion losing social significance
- confiscationSeizure by authority
- reformationProcess of improving institutions
suppression · patrimony · manuscript · illumination · library · archive · relic · pilgrimage · medieval · colonial
- convention centreFacility hosting large gatherings
- conventional wisdomGenerally accepted beliefs
- convention centerFacility for large gatherings
- convention floor
- convent schoolSchool run by nuns
- national conventionCountrywide political assembly
convent, convene, convention, conventional, conventionally, unconventional, convening, convened