convent

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɒn.vɛnt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɒn.vənt/
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• General-American: /ˈkɑn.vɛnt/
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• /kənˈvɛnt/
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• rhymes with -ɛnt
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• CMU ARPABET: K AA1 N V AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: K AA1 N V EH2 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English convent, variant of covent, from Old French covent, from Latin conventus, perfect participle of the verb convenio (whence ultimately convene), see con- + venio. Doublet of coven.

From Latin convenio (past participle conventus), whence also convene; so of the same ultimate origin as Etymology 1.

73 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: دير — religious community of especially nuns
• Arabic: رهبنة نسوي (rahbana niswī) — religious community of especially nuns
• Bulgarian: мето́х (metóh) — religious community of especially nuns
• Catalan: convent — religious community of especially nuns
• Chinese Mandarin: 女修道院 (nǔ xiūdàoyuàn) — religious community of especially nuns
• Chinese Mandarin: 庵堂 (āntáng) — religious community of especially nuns
• Chinese Mandarin: 尼姑庵 (nígū'ān) — religious community of especially nuns
• Danish: kloster — religious community of especially nuns
• Danish: nonnekloster — religious community of especially nuns
• Danish: munkekloster — religious community of especially nuns
• Dutch: nonnenklooster — religious community of especially nuns
• Finnish: konventti — religious community of especially nuns
• Finnish: nunnaluostari — religious community of especially nuns
• French: couvent — religious community of especially nuns
• Georgian: მონასტერი (monasṭeri) — religious community of especially nuns
• German: Kloster — religious community of especially nuns
• German: Nonnenkloster — religious community of especially nuns
• Hungarian: zárda — religious community of especially nuns
• Irish: clochar — religious community of especially nuns
• Italian: convento — religious community of especially nuns
• Latin: coenobium — religious community of especially nuns
• Latin: monastērium (monachārum) — religious community of especially nuns
• Latin: conventus — religious community of especially nuns
• Macedonian: же́нски ма́настир (žénski mánastir) — religious community of especially nuns
• Malay: konven — religious community of especially nuns
• Māori: whare none — religious community of especially nuns
• Middle English: covent — religious community of especially nuns
• Norwegian Bokmål: kloster — religious community of especially nuns
• Norwegian Bokmål: nonnekloster — religious community of especially nuns
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kloster — religious community of especially nuns
• Norwegian Nynorsk: nonnekloster — religious community of especially nuns
• Old English: nunnhīrēd — religious community of especially nuns
• Old English: nunnmynster — religious community of especially nuns
• Old English: wīfhīrēd — religious community of especially nuns
• Polish: konwent — religious community of especially nuns
• Polish: klasztor (żeński) — religious community of especially nuns
• Portuguese: convento — religious community of especially nuns
• Romanian: mănăstire (de maici) — religious community of especially nuns
• Russian: же́нский монасты́рь (žénskij monastýrʹ) — religious community of especially nuns
• Spanish: convento — religious community of especially nuns
• Swahili: konventi — religious community of especially nuns
• Swedish: nunnekloster — religious community of especially nuns
• Swedish: kloster — religious community of especially nuns
• Tagalog: kumbento — religious community of especially nuns
• Tocharian B: tsāro — religious community of especially nuns
• Catalan: convent — building
• Chinese Mandarin: 修道院 (xiūdàoyuàn) — building
• Czech: klášter — building
• Danish: kloster — building
• Danish: nonnekloster — building
• Danish: munkekloster — building
• Finnish: konventti — building
• Finnish: nunnaluostari — building
• Macedonian: ма́настир (mánastir) — building
• Middle English: covent — building
• Norwegian Bokmål: kloster — building
• Norwegian Bokmål: nonnekloster — building
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kloster — building
• Norwegian Nynorsk: nonnekloster — building
• Persian: صومعه (sovme'e) — building
• Portuguese: convento — building
• Russian: монасты́рь (monastýrʹ) — building
• Slovak: kláštor — building
• Spanish: convento — building
• Finnish: konventti — gathering
• Finnish: kokous — gathering
• Macedonian: собир (sobir) — gathering
• Middle English: covent — gathering
• Polish: konwent — gathering
• Portuguese: convenção — gathering
• Russian: съезд (sʺjezd) — gathering
• Russian: слёт (sljot) — gathering
• Russian: конве́нт (konvént) — gathering