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Definition of "nunnery" []

  • A convent of nuns. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "nunnery" in a sentence
  • "Our training took place at The Novitiate Nazareth, a very nice retreat center that is a convent aka nunnery by some locals."
  • "But when the bishop came to visit a nunnery, that is precisely what happened."
  • "During three centuries, the nunnery was a neighbour of the monastery, but, in 910, as the Huns were wasting the country, the nuns, with the help of the Emperor Louis III, constructed a fortified convent in the valley."