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CONVENTUAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does conventual mean?
• CONVENTUAL (adjective)
The adjective CONVENTUAL has 1 sense:
1. of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
Familiarity information: CONVENTUAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
Synonyms:
cloistered; cloistral; conventual; monastic; monastical
Similar:
unworldly (not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations)
Derivation:
convent (a religious residence especially for nuns)
convent (a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together)
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