Nun

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A woman who belongs to a religious order or congregation devoted to active service or meditation, living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
  • n. The 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. See Table at alphabet.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
  • n. A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, in some cases living together in a cloister.
  • n. By extension, member of a similar female community in other confessions.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
  • n.
  • n. A white variety of domestic pigeons having a veil of feathers covering the head.
  • n. The smew.
  • n. The European blue titmouse.
  • n. The 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding in pronunciation to n.
  • n. The 25th letter of the Arabic alphabet, corresponding in pronunciation to n.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A woman devoted to a religious life, under a vow of poverty, celibacy, and obedience to a superior: correlative to monk.
  • n. A female recluse.
  • n. A name of several different birds.
  • n. A child's top.
  • To cloister up as a nun; confine in or as if in a nunnery.
  • n. Same as nun-moth.
  • n. 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.
  • n. The fourteenth letter (ℶ) of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding to the Greek νῦ and the English n. Its numerical value is 50.
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  • n. a buoy resembling a cone
  • n. the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
  • n. a woman religious
  • Hypernym
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    Cross Reference
    Form
    nunlike    nun-like    nunnery    nunhood   
    Synonym
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    Rhyme
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    Donne    Gunn    Hon    Hun    Jun    Kun    M1    Son    Sun    Thun   
    Same Context
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    monk    priest    saint    novice    scholar    maiden    sister    pilgrim    knight    friar