Conventual

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  • adjective. Of or relating to a convent.
  • noun. A member of a convent.
  • noun. A member of a branch of the Franciscan order that permits the accumulation and possession of common property.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Belonging to a convent; monastic: as, conventual priors.
  • noun. One who lives in a convent; a monk or a nun.
  • noun. [capitalized] A member of one of the two great branches of the Franciscan order, the other being the Observants. See Franciscan.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who lives in a convent; a monk or nun; a recluse.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to a convent; monastic.
  • adjective. a church attached or belonging to a convent or monastery.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Pertaining to a convent or convent life; cloistered, monastic.
  • noun. A member of a convent.
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  • adjective. of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
    • Word Usage
    "Ely thus became a cathedral -- of the kind that was called conventual cathedrals."
    cross-reference
    conventual church  conventual mass  
    Equivalent
    unworldly  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Augustinian  barn-like  candle-lit  cloistral  collegiate  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ecclesiastic  monastic  monk  nun  recluse  
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