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convent school

convent school noun: a school at which the teaching staff, and often the support staff, are nuns.

Noun

convent school (plural convent schools)

  1. A school at which the teaching staff, and often the support staff, are nuns.
    • He smoothed the letter open and began to read. It was quite a short letter, written in convent-school English.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 558
  2. (India, proscribed) Any English-medium school.

Forms of convent school

pluralconvent schools

Questions about convent school

What does convent school mean?
Convent school means a school at which the teaching staff, and often the support staff, are nuns.
What part of speech is convent school?
Convent school is a noun.
What is the plural of convent school?
The plural of convent school is convent schools.

Words near convent school in the dictionary

  1. convenor
  2. convenors
  3. convenorship
  4. convenorships
  5. convent
  6. convent school
  7. convent schools
  8. Convent Station
  9. convented
  10. conventical
  11. conventicle

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