covent
See also: Covent
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English covent, from Old French covent (modern French couvent).
Noun edit
covent (plural covents)
- (obsolete) Convent.
- c. 1500, anonymous author, A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483[1]:
- And in this yere deyde Huberd erchebisshop of Caunterbury; and thanne the priour and the covent of Caunterbury chosen in there chapytre hous the noble clerk Stephen of Langeton, ayens the kynges will, whome the pope sacred at Viterke.
Derived terms edit
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
covent oblique singular, m (oblique plural covenz or coventz, nominative singular covenz or coventz, nominative plural covent)
- convent (residence of nuns)