nun
/nʌn/
A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, those living together in a cloister; A member of a similar female community in other confessions
- plural
- nuns
Meanings
- 1
A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together in a cloister
Are you really a nun?
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She was taught English by the nuns.
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- 2
A member of a similar female community in other confessions
- 3
A prostituterare
- 4
A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nunrare
- 5
The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets or abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others)rare