- a community of persons devoted to religious life under a superior.
- a society or association of monks, friars, or nuns: now usually used of a society of nuns.
- the building or buildings occupied by such a society; a monastery or nunnery.
- assembly; meeting.
- a building inhabited by a religious community, usually of nuns
- the religious community inhabiting such a building
- a school in which the teachers are nuns
