Nun

English

Noun

Nun (plural Nuns)

1. A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, in some cases in a cloister.
2. By extension, member of a similar female community in other confessions
3. The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets.

Adjectives for Nuns

undedicate; uncloistered; self-loving; chanting; holy; sincere.

Synonyms for Nuns

• sister, moniale, sistren

Antonyms for Nuns

(member of a religious community of men)

• brother
• friar
• monk
• friar and frater or father

Thesaurus

abbess, canoness, celibataire, celibate, clergywoman, conventual, lady superior, misogamist, misogynist, monastic, monk, mother superior, novice, postulant, priest, prioress, religieuse, secular canoness, single, sister, superioress, the reverend mother, unmarried

Pronunciation

• enPR: nŭn, IPA: /nʌn/, SAMPA: /nVn/
• Rhymes: -ʌn

• Homophone: none

Pronunciation

• enPR: nŏŏn, IPA: /nʊn/, SAMPA: /nUn/ or enPR: no͞on, IPA: /nuːn/, SAMPA: /nu:n/