Nun

Word NUN
Character 3
Hyphenation nun
Pronunciations /nʌn/

Definitions and meanings of "Nun"

What do we mean by nun?

The 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. noun

A woman who belongs to a religious order or congregation devoted to active service or meditation, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. noun

Same as nun-moth. noun

The fourteenth letter (ℶ) of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding to the Greek νῦ and the English n. Its numerical value is 50. noun

A yellowish-brown, neutral, fatty substance produced by an insect found in Yucatan. It melts at 48.9° C. and readily absorbs oxygen from the air. noun

To cloister up as a nun; confine in or as if in a nunnery.

A woman devoted to a religious life, under a vow of poverty, celibacy, and obedience to a superior: correlative to monk. noun

A female recluse. noun

A name of several different birds. noun

A child's top. noun

The 25th letter of the Arabic alphabet, corresponding in pronunciation to n. noun

The 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding in pronunciation to n. noun

A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. noun

A white variety of domestic pigeons having a veil of feathers covering the head. noun

The smew. noun

The European blue titmouse. noun

The members of a religious order established in Montreal in 1745, whence branches were introduced into the United States in 1853; -- so called from the color or their robe, and known in religion as Sisters of Charity of Montreal. noun

See under Buoy. noun

The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). noun

A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (specifically) those living together in a cloister.

(by extension) A member of a similar female community in other confessions.

A prostitute.

A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Nun

The word "nun" in example sentences

JACKI SCHECHNER, CNN INTERNET REPORTER: Tom, take a close look at what they call the nun bun, or the immaculate confection. ❋ Unknown (2005)

For whatever else she is, a nun is a woman who has pledged herself to God and renounced sex. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The incumbent of a temple, celibate or not, is called a monk; the term nun is generally rejected, at least in contemporary Western Zen. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Somehow, an evil nun is trying totake the thing over. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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) ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

She called the nun in July, 2008 to make the appointment, and Teresa couldn't book an appointment until November 2, 2010. ❋ Claudia Ricci (2010)

A nun is murdered by protesting muslins in Somalia. ❋ Unknown (2006)

She had wanted to be a nun from a young age, and with the support of a hometown priest, she moved to Iasi. ❋ Unknown (2002)

I didn't speak to a single nun from the day I graduated from high school, in 1967, until the late 1980s, when I encountered nuns as political allies, signers of an advertisement taken out in The New York Times saying that not all Catholics were anti-choice. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The catechetical nun is pictured with a half-naked child whose hair suggests that he is black (or Negro, as we would have said then), but his face, like the others '(because the drawings are only line drawings, and therefore the figures are only outlined), is the color of the page. ❋ Unknown (2002)

This erudite poet and dramatist, a lady-in-waiting who later became a nun, is the subject of a penetrating analysis against the background of the culture and society of her day. ❋ Unknown (1990)

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