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convent schools

convent schools is the plural of convent school.

Meaning of convent school

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.

Questions about convent schools

What is convent schools the plural of?
Convent schools is the plural of convent school.

Words near convent schools in the dictionary

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

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