nun

About 3.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. symbol ISO 639-3 language code for Anong.
2. noun A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, those living together in a cloister.
3. noun A member of a similar female community in other confessions.

   a Buddhist nun

4. noun A prostitute.
5. noun A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
6. noun The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets or abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
7. pronoun Pronunciation spelling of nothing.

Similar words

nun buoy conical buoy convent nunnery carmelite abbey religion religious sister noun

Often followed by

in and who of was at to is die

Word family

nunlike nuns