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Definition of Covent
1. n. A convent or monastery.
Definition of Covent
1. Noun. (obsolete) convent ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Covent
1. a convent [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Covent
Literary usage of Covent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Fanny Kemble, Kate Field, John William Cole (1859)
"covent Garden sprang again from its ashes in renovated splendour within twelve
months. Drury Lane, being beset by heavier incum- brances, ..."
2. London and Its Environs: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1908)
"In the covent Garden Piazzas, now nearly all cleared away, the families of Lord
Crewe, Bishop Berkeley, Lord Hollis, Earl of Oxford, Sir Godfrey Kneller, ..."
3. The History of Henry Fielding by Wilbur Lucius Cross (1918)
"CHAPTER XXIV THE covent-GARDEN JOURNAL Before "Amelia" was off the press, ...
On that day the coffee-houses received the first number of "The covent- Garden ..."
4. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1872)
"covent GARDEN (CENTRAL). FOB ages a monastic garden and quiet semi-rural cemetery
for the ... The modern square of covent Garden was first formed in 1631, ..."
5. Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by John Bright, James Edwin Thorold Rogers (1869)
"[During the agitation for the repeal of the Corn-laws, the Anti-Corn-law League
held many great meetings in covent Garden Theatre, at which Mr. Cobden, ..."
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