convents
Nuns live here
Convents are communities of religious women living under vows, or the buildings housing them.
Nuns in convents follow a rule of life—prayer, work, and communal living.
The word sometimes extends to communities of friars or monks, though monastery is more common for men.
She entered a convent at nineteen.
Female religious monastics
- monasteryReligious seclusion dwelling
- cloisterCovered monastic walkway
- abbeyMonastic house of worship
- habitSettled regular tendency
veil · chapel · prayer · vows · sisterhood · novice · religious order · enclosure
Covered monastic walkway
- courtyardEnclosed open-air space
- bell towerStructure housing large chimes
- dormitoryStudent living building
- chapter houseAssembly room for clergy
grille · parlor · infirmary · garden · walls · stone · arches · corridors
Breaking up completely
- ReformationReligious movement splitting Christianity
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- foundingCreating an organization originally
- endowmentPermanent donated fund
patronage · suppression · Henry VIII · Counter-Reformation · pilgrimage · relics · manuscripts · illumination
Residential academic institution
- girls schoolFemale-only educational institution
- parochialNarrow in perspective
- teaching sistersNuns who educate
- academyInstitution of learning
discipline · uniform · catechism · curriculum · chapel · dormitory · Mother Superior · strictness
nuns
Female religious monastics
habit · veil · chapel · prayer · vows · sisterhood · novice · religious order · enclosure · devotion
cloister
Covered monastic walkway
- courtyardEnclosed open-air space
- bell towerStructure housing large chimes
- dormitoryStudent living building
chapter house · grille · parlor · infirmary · garden · walls · stone · arches · corridors · cells
dissolution
Breaking up completely
- ReformationReligious movement splitting Christianity
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- foundingCreating an organization originally
endowment · patronage · suppression · Henry VIII · Counter-Reformation · pilgrimage · relics · manuscripts · illumination · dowry
boarding school
Residential academic institution
- girls schoolFemale-only educational institution
- parochialNarrow in perspective
- teaching sistersNuns who educate
academy · discipline · uniform · catechism · curriculum · chapel · dormitory · Mother Superior · strictness · graduation
- religious organizationsBaptist churches, congregations, Methodist churches, Methodist Church, parishes
- church historychurch history, apostles, Protestant Reformation, Christian history, baptism
- American Catholicismarchdiocese, parish council, archdioceses, Catholic school, Catholic schools
- Belgian Catholicismabbeys, archdioceses, bishoprics, cardinals, dioceses
- Church Bodiesarchdiocese, diocese, dioceses, bishopric, parishes
- Communescommunes, communal living, kibbutz, hippie commune, utopian communities
conventsmonasteries
Residences for religious brothers
abbeys · friaries · priories · hermitages · seminaries
conventsbrothels
Establishments for paid sex
bordellos · nightclubs · casinos · dance halls · taverns
- conventional wisdomGenerally accepted beliefs
- convent schoolSchool run by nuns
- conventional ovenStandard thermal cooking appliance
- conventional weaponsNon-WMD military equipment
- conventional warArmed conflict between states
- conventional loanNon-government-insured home financing
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