Conventual

Quick meaning: Conventual is an adjective meaning Pertaining to a convent or convent life; cloistered, monastic.

Meaning

Pertaining to a convent or convent life; cloistered, monastic.

More Meanings

1. A member of a convent.

Example Sentences

The Breton Club resumed its meetings in the refectory of an empty conventual building in the rue Saint-Jacques.

During this time, sister Ursula, to give her for the last time her conventual name, exchanged her stole, or loose upper garment, for the more succinct cloak and hood of a horseman.

The noise of her steps, light as they were, attracted the stranger's notice, who, turning round and letting her mantle fall as she did so, showed a tall and stately figure, dressed in what appeared to be some conventual costume.

The Sunday Times has convinced me I ought to immediately start out on a new regime of positively conventual austerity in order to reduce the burden on a strained NHS by not forcing them to have to cope with my ling cancer or coronary.

Word Forms

• conventuals

Synonyms for conventual

Depending on context, synonyms include cloistered, monastic, unworldly, cloistral, monastical.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cloistered, cloistral, monastic, monastical, unworldly, cloisteral.

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