Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
- To cloister up as a nun; confine in or as if in a nunnery.
- noun Same as
nun-moth . - 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 The fourteenth letter (ℶ) of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding to the Greek
νῦ and the English n. Its numerical value is 50.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding in pronunciation to n.
- noun The 25th letter of the Arabic 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 (R. C. Ch.) 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 .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- 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 ahabit , in some cases living together in acloister . - noun By extension, member of a similar female community in other confessions.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a buoy resembling a cone
- noun the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
- noun a woman religious
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word nun.
Examples
-
JACKI SCHECHNER, CNN INTERNET REPORTER: Tom, take a close look at what they call the nun bun, or the immaculate confection.
-
For whatever else she is, a nun is a woman who has pledged herself to God and renounced sex.
Women of God 2002
-
For whatever else she is, a nun is a woman who has pledged herself to God and renounced sex.
Women of God 2002
-
For whatever else she is, a nun is a woman who has pledged herself to God and renounced sex.
Women of God 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.
-
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.
Jesuit: Obama is "the most effective spokesperson" for "the spirit of Vatican II" 2009
-
Somehow, an evil nun is trying totake the thing over.
The Inner Editor Changes Her Point of View « Looking for Roots 2009
-
She called the nun in July, 2008 to make the appointment, and Teresa couldn't book an appointment until November 2, 2010.
Claudia Ricci: Psychic Ex-Nun -- How Does She Communicate with Those Beyond? Claudia Ricci 2010
-
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)
-
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.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
mollusque commented on the word nun
Also a European cowrie shell of the genus Trivia, a kind of bird, and a Hebrew letter corresponding to "n".
November 18, 2007
kewpid commented on the word nun
mum
May 6, 2008
sionnach commented on the word nun
or, indeed, ovo
May 6, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word nun
Usage here.
October 23, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word nun
Nickname for the blue titmouse.
May 13, 2011
reesetee commented on the word nun
Also a nickname for the smew (which is also called white nun).
May 14, 2011