- Church - Church building - Convent - Monastery - Monastery or convent - Religious house - A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded
from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic
building or buildings.
- Convent - Religious house - A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; --
sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also
cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2.
- Convent - Convent allows nun to replace gun in gunnery - Nun replaces weapon in gunnery of religious house - Priory - Religious house - A house in which nuns reside; a cloister or convent in
which women reside for life, under religious vows. See Cloister, and
Convent.
- One who provides; a purveyor. - The purveyor, steward, or treasurer of a religious house. - One who is regularly inducted into a benefice. See
Provision, 5. - One who procures or receives a papal provision. See
Provision, 6.