Who lives in convent?

Answer 1

Roman Catholic AnswerHistorically, a convent was the home of mendicants (friars or sisters), nowadays, the term is usually used to refer to the building or buildings in which a community of religious women live; although that would not include nuns, who live in an monastery or Abbey.

Answer 2

Roman Catholic answerThe word has three separate meanings in the Catholic heritage:

1) Used with the title abbot or prior means a monastic community in its corporate capacity, e.g. the Abbot and Convent of St. Gregory the Great at Downside [England].

2) The buildings wherein lives a monastic community of monks, friars or nuns; the name is not given to the houses of the more recent congregations of men, Jesuits, Passionists, etc.

3) In common speech, a house of nuns.

from A Catholic Dictionary, Edited by Donald Attwater, 2nd Edition, Revised.