convent school

Noun

Meaning

A school at which the teaching staff, and often the support staff, are nuns.

(India, proscribed) Any English-medium school.

Examples

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy. Bharati Mukherjee

I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school. Marina Warner

I went to an all-girls' Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, 'Mum, that's it - I need to go where there are some boys.' Freida Pinto

I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945. Hilary Mantel

Penelope O’Grady and Cara Wall are risking disaster when, like teenagers in any intolerant time and place—here, a Dublin convent school in the late 1970s—they fall in love. Source: Internet

While her mother was working, Violet attended a convent school. Source: Internet

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