Thesaurus: nun

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1. n. A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
2. n. A white variety of domestic pigeons having a veil of feathers covering the head.
3. n. The smew.
4. n. The European blue titmouse.
5. n. a woman religious
6. n. a buoy resembling a cone
7. n. the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
8. 1. A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. They holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration. Wordsworth. 2. (Zoöl.) (a) A white variety of domestic pigeons having a veil of feathers covering the head. (b) The smew. (c) The European blue titmouse. Gray nuns (R. C. Ch.), the members of a religious order established in Montreal in 1745, whence branches were introduced into the United States in 1853; -- so called from the color or their robe, and known in religion as Sisters of Charity of Montreal. -- Nun buoy. See under Buoy.
9. n:100 n. a woman religious n. the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet