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Collocations for convent - noun

ADJECTIVE

Carmelite, Catholic, Franciscan, etc.

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VERB + convent

enter, join
She entered a convent (= became a nun) at the age of sixteen.
leave
establish, found, set up
The nuns established a convent here in 1692.

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convent + NOUN

building, wall
within the convent walls (= inside the convent)
education, school

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PREPOSITION

in a/the convent
She spent her whole life in a convent.
convent of
the Convent of St Saviour

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