Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A convent of nuns.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A convent or cloister for the exclusive use of nuns.
- Nuns collectively, or the institution or system of conventual life for women.
- A name sometimes given to the triforium of a medieval church, since in some churches this gallery was set apart for the use of nuns attending them.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A house in which nuns reside; a cloister or convent in which women reside for life, under religious vows. See cloister, and convent.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the convent of a community of nuns
Examples
“Our training took place at The Novitiate Nazareth, a very nice retreat center that is a convent aka nunnery by some locals.”
“But when the bishop came to visit a nunnery, that is precisely what happened.”
“During three centuries, the nunnery was a neighbour of the monastery, but, in 910, as the Huns were wasting the country, the nuns, with the help of the Emperor Louis III, constructed a fortified convent in the valley.”
“Out of a sheer impulse for self-protection she flies to the nunnery, which is ready to give her life at the price of her womanhood and her self-sacrifice.”
“To give an idea of the feeling which has always been common in Rome against the Jesuits, it is enough to quote the often told popular legend about the windy Piazza del Gesù, where their principal church stands, adjoining what was once their convent, or monastery, as people say nowadays, though Doctor Johnson admits no distinction between the words, and Dryden called a nunnery by the latter name.”
Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
“The nucleus of the nunnery was a private house called”
“That the nunnery was a sacred place, and ought not to be profaned by the admission of enemies of the church.”
Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published
“The local Tibetan said the authorities had since locked down the area and sent troops into the nunnery, which is known as Ganden Jangchup Choeling.”
“The very sight of a convent-spire was sufficient to set their Moslem blood in a foment, and they sacked it with as fierce a zeal as though the sacking of a nunnery were a sure passport to Elysium.”
“Tis a very nice point, madam: I really do not well know how to advise: but, to be sure, a nunnery is a choice not to be recommended to a lady of your youth and beauty, unless your inclinations lead you that way; then indeed --”
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for nunnery.
infin8y dont forget "nunnery" from Hamlet =] Apr 12, 2009
sionnach bunnery : a baker's shop
cunnery : an Aleutian gift shop
dunnery : a bill-collection center
funnery : clown school; alternate name for Wordie
gunnery : design and manufacture of heavy guns
hunnery : camp for German prisoners of war
munnery : a bank
lunnery : a teashop
punnery : den of iniquity; alternate name for Wordie
runnery : track and field training complex
sunnery : tanning salon
shunnery : alternate name for the city of Coventry
stunnery : an Abu Ghraib interrogation cell Feb 8, 2009
bilby
Tell me not (Sweet) I am unkinde,
That from the Nunnerie
Of thy chaste breast, and quiet minde,
To Warre and Armes I flie.
- Richard Lovelace, 'To Lucasta, Going to the Warres'. Feb 7, 2009
seanahan The WordNet definition listed seems just a bit redundant. Dec 6, 2007