Definition of "covent"
covent
noun
plural covents
(obsolete) Convent.
Quotations
And in this yere deyde Huberd erchebisshop of Caunterbury; and thanne the priour and the covent of Caunterbury chosen in there chapytre hous the noble clerk Stephen of Langeton, ayens the kynges will, whome the pope sacred at Viterke.
c. 1500, anonymous author, A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483