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Nuns

noun
/nʌnz/
Word Frequency: 3.1

Definitions

1.nounA 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.
2.noun(by extension) A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
3.nounA prostitute.
4.nounA kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
5.nounThe fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Synonyms

monialesistersistrennun buoyconical buoyconventualsmatesmonksreligioussiblingssistersursuline

Antonyms

brotherfraterfriarmonk

Rhymes With

bunstonsgunsshunsrunshandgunsonessons
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