• enPR: nŭn, IPA: /nʌn/

nun (plural nuns)

1. 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.

   Synonyms: sister, moniale, sistren

   Antonyms: brother, friar, monk, frater

2. (by extension) A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
3. (archaic, British, slang) A prostitute.

   Synonyms: Thesaurus:prostitute

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

• (member of a religious community) nonnus
• (prostitute) abbess, abbot, Covent Garden nun

• French: nonne, religieuse, bonne sœur, moniale, nonnain
• German: Nonne, Ordensschwester, Klosterschwester, Schwester
• Italian: suora, monaca
• Portuguese: freira, religiosa, madre, monja
• Russian: мона́хиня
• Spanish: monja

• Italian: monaca

• enPR: nŏŏn, IPA: /nʊn/ or enPR: no͞on, IPA: /nuːn/

nun (plural nuns)

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

• Russian: нун
• Spanish: nun

1. (very, rare) A male given name
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Deuteronomy 34:9 ↗:

     :

     And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.

1. The languages of the Bamun people of western Cameroon.