nun
IPA: nˈʌn
noun
- 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.
- (by extension) A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
- (archaic, Britain, slang) A prostitute.
- A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
- The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- (very rare) A male given name from Hebrew
- The languages of the Bamun people of western Cameroon.
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Examples of "nun" in Sentences
- Sadly and reluctantly, she became a nun.
- Deloris has a spartan lifestyle of a nun.
- The nuns then elected her as the new abbess.
- Chris Tait was the son of a nun and an incubus.
- The answers lie in the ancient crypt of the nuns.
- Nuns announce that Finis Hominis has come to save the world.
- Linen thread was used by the nuns to make the needlepoint lace.
- Cloistered nuns and monks could obtain the indulgence in their house chapels.
- Andrew, and shown to the prioress and three or four of the more discreet nuns.
- Furthermore, the Latin poems of this unassuming nun have had a curious history.
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