nun
see also: Nun
Pronunciation Noun
Nun
Proper noun
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see also: Nun
Pronunciation Noun
nun (plural nuns)
- 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
- (by extension) A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
- (archaic, British, slang) A prostitute.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:prostitute
- 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
nun (plural nuns)
- The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- Russian: нун
- Spanish: nun
Nun
Proper noun
- (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.
- The languages of the Bamun people of western Cameroon.
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