nun
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/nʌn/
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Definitions
noun
- A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (specifically) those living together in a cloister.
- (by extension) A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
- A prostitute.
- A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
noun
- The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
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monialesistersistrennun buoyconical buoyconventnunnerycarmeliteabbeyreligionreligiousnoungamateappletonsistersconventualmonastic