nun

IPA: nˈʌn

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.

Examples of "nun" in Sentences

Somehow, an evil nun is trying totake the thing over.
For whatever else she is, a nun is a woman who has pledged herself to God and renounced sex.
She called the nun in July, 2008 to make the appointment, and Teresa couldn't book an appointment until November 2, 2010.
JACKI SCHECHNER, CNN INTERNET REPORTER: Tom, take a close look at what they call the nun bun, or the immaculate confection.
The incumbent of a temple, celibate or not, is called a monk; the term nun is generally rejected, at least in contemporary Western Zen.
One nun from the monastery of Töss was devoted to a depiction of Christ in Judgment before Pilate. 21 She would pray before the image, asking that she be judged favorably at the Last Judgment.
She turns out to be a nun from the Church of England, and her mind has been implanted with the Index-Librorum-Prohibitorum – all the magical texts the Church has removed from circulation. (from: Wikipedia)
And the average age of an American nun is around 70 — except in traditional orders such as the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which now [in 2006] have 73 members with an average age of 24.