Crossword clues for nun
nun
- 14th Hebrew letter
- "The Flying ____"
- Woman who wears a habit
- Woman in an order
- Woman in a priory
- Teacher at a Catholic school, sometimes
- Sarandon Oscar role
- Saintly sister
- Parochial school figure
- One of the Poor Clares
- One of many sisters
- Holy sister
- Early Sally Field character
- Convent manager
- Cloistered sister
- Certain prayer
- Carmelite, e.g
- Abbess subordinate
- "Maria" singer in "The Sound of Music"
- "Lilies of the Field" character
- "Agnes of God" extra
- ''Dominique'' singer, for one
- Woman with her habits in order?
- Woman with a good habit
- Woman who wears a wimple
- Woman who takes a vow of poverty
- Woman who lives in a convent
- Woman who devotes her life to God
- Wimpled one
- Wimple-wearing woman
- Wife of Jesus
- What to call some sisters
- What Deloris pretended to be in "Sister Act"
- Vow of poverty taker
- Vow of chastity taker
- Trappistine, e.g
- Teacher in a Catholic school often
- Teacher at a Catholic school, often
- Taker of religious vows
- Susan Sarandon's "Dead Man Walking" role
- Sister, really
- Sister, of a sort
- Sister with a rosary
- Sister who's taken vows of poverty and chastity
- Sister wearing a habit
- Sister Sophia in "The Sound of Music," e.g
- Sister in an order
- Sister Helen Prejean, for one
- She may have quite a habit
- She has a habit
- Sally Field played one
- Role for Whoopi
- Resident of a cloister
- Religious woman with a habit
- Religious woman who wears a habit
- Religious woman like Mother Teresa
- Religious school teacher, perhaps
- Real nice sister?
- Private school teacher, perhaps
- Priory female
- Person with a habit
- Person who gets into good habits?
- Palindromic vow-taker
- Palindromic sister
- One with a mother
- One who tries to "solve a problem like Maria"
- One who completed the novitiate
- One used to old habits?
- One living in a convent
- One living an orderly life?
- One in the habit of wearing a habit
- One in "Doubt"
- One getting into a habit
- One bound by vows
- Novice, perhaps
- Niger River mouth
- Naughty ___ (adult costume)
- Mother Teresa, for example
- Mother in a convent
- Mother figure?
- Mother Abbess in "The Sound of Music," for one
- Monk's counterpart
- Monk kin
- Mary Tyler Moore, in Elvis' "Change of Habit"
- Maria originally wanted to be one, in "The Sound of Music"
- Many a saint, originally
- Many a Catholic schoolteacher
- Many a "Sister Act" role
- Letter between mem and samekh
- Letter before samekh
- Individual in a cloister
- Helen Prejean, e.g
- Helen Prejean in "Dead Man Walking," for one
- Hebrew alphabet's 14th letter
- Habited woman
- Habit-forming position?
- Female counterpart of a monk
- Dreidel side
- Devout worshiper of a sort
- Convent-ional sort
- Convent person
- Convent frequenter
- Cloistered female
- Cloister inhabitant
- Chaucer's Prioress, for one
- Chaste one
- Chaplain, perhaps
- Certain mother or sister
- Certain Dominican
- Catholic school teacher, perhaps
- Carmelite, perhaps
- Carmelite, for example
- Calling for a religious woman
- Blue __: German wine brand
- Art maven Sister Wendy, e.g
- Agnes of "Agnes of God," for one
- Agnes in "Agnes of God," e.g
- 1959 Audrey Hepburn portrayal
- 14th Greek letter
- [See Notepad note]
- "Sister of God"
- "Sister Act" sister
- "Sister Act" role
- "Madeline" character Miss Clavel, e.g
- "Lilies of the Field" extra
- "Change of Habit" role
- "Canterbury Tales "character
- "Black Narcissus" character
- ''Sister Act'' sister
- ''Flying'' Field role
- Wimple wearer, sometimes
- Sally Field TV role
- One who's taken vows
- Susan Sarandon in "Dead Man Walking"
- Resident of St. Mary's
- One with a habit
- Mother Teresa, for one
- Mother, maybe
- Convent dweller
- She follows an order
- Ursuline, e.g.
- Sister or mother
- Woman of habit?
- Sister Bertrille, e.g.
- Prioress
- Church lady
- One of the Canterbury pilgrims
- Mother or sister
- Taker of vows
- Parochial schoolteacher
- "The Sound of Music" extra
- Order member
- Novice, maybe
- Carmelite, for one
- Poor Clares member
- Certain Buddhist
- Convent resident
- Many a rosary carrier
- Convent inhabitant
- Hebrew N
- One with a regular habit?
- Bhikkhuni : Buddhism :: ___ : Catholicism
- Role in "Doubt" or "Dead Man Walking"
- Creature of habit?
- Mother superior, for one
- Parochial school teacher, maybe
- Hebrew letter before samekh
- Certain rosary counter
- Letter on a dreidel
- Habit wearer
- Extra in "The Sound of Music"
- One whose life is in order?
- A woman religious
- A buoy resembling a cone
- The 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
- Narrator of a Chaucer tale
- Kerr role in "Black Narcissus"
- Religieuse
- Channel buoy
- One of the buoys
- Saint Theresa was one
- Breed of pigeon
- Type of buoy
- Wimple wearer, perhaps
- Mother Seton was one
- A deaness is one
- Bernadette, for one
- Marist, for one
- A religious
- Convent figure
- Conventual
- Kind of buoy
- A buoy
- Puccini's Suor Angelica
- Member of Order — note posh name
- Cloistered one, perhaps
- Woman with a habit?
- Knight meets a French religious lady
- Sister, in turn, nipped out regularly
- Sister protected by European Union
- Sister with new uniform, head of nurses
- Sister nobody’s spoken of
- Sister in cotton uniform
- Sister is in ruins, every now and then
- Sister hiding in kitchen unit
- Sister having nothing to say
- News about union leader’s sister?
- Religious female going backwards and forwards
- Religious female
- Joshua's father's sister
- Holy woman going back and forth
- Religious sister
- Sally Field role
- Vow taker
- Cloister resident
- Convent occupant
- Order follower
- Big sister?
- Mother Teresa, notably
- Habit inhabitant
- Convent sister
- Convent denizen
- "Sister Act" extra
- Wimpled woman
- Convent member
- Abbey resident
- Sister with a habit
- Palindromic woman
- Certain sister
- "Dominique" singer, for one
- Woman in a convent
- Sort of sister
- Sister, of sorts
- One in an order
- Mother Teresa, e.g
- Member of an order
- Her life is in order?
- Dreidel letter
- Cloister sister
- Chaucerian tale-teller
- Catholic sister
- Abbess, e.g
- Woman under a vow of poverty
- Ursuline, e.g
- Sisterhood member
- Sister who may be an only child
- Sister in a convent
- She's taken a vow
- Religious person
- Prayer in a convent
- One supporting a habit?
- One in a habit
- Mother Teresa was one
- Mother superior inferior
- Many a "Call the Midwife" character
- Convent woman
- Cloistered woman
- Cloister member
- Cloister figure
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
nun \nun\ (n[oo^]n or n[=oo]n), n. The 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding in pronunciation to n.
nun \nun\ (n[oo^]n), n. The 25th letter of the Arabic alphabet, corresponding in pronunciation to n.
nun \nun\ (n[u^]n), n. [OE. nunne, AS. nunne, fr. L. nonna nun, nonnus monk; cf. Gr. ?, ?; of unknown origin. Cf. Nunnery.]
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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.
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(Zo["o]l.)
A white variety of domestic pigeons having a veil of feathers covering the head.
The smew.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English nunne "nun, vestal, pagan priestess, woman devoted to religious life under vows," from Late Latin nonna "nun, tutor," originally (along with masc. nonnus) a term of address to elderly persons, perhaps from children's speech, reminiscent of nana (compare Sanskrit nona, Persian nana "mother," Greek nanna "aunt," Serbo-Croatian nena "mother," Italian nonna, Welsh nain "grandmother;" see nanny).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, in some cases living together in a cloister. 2 By extension, member of a similar female community in other confessions. Etymology 2
alt. The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). n. The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
WordNet
n. a woman religious
a buoy resembling a cone [syn: conical buoy, nun buoy]
the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Wikipedia
NUN could refer to:
- Saufley Field, airport, Pensacola, Florida, United States; IATA airport code NUN
- Nuneaton railway station, England; National Rail station code NUN
Nun is the fourteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Nūn , Hebrew Nun , Aramaic Nun , Syriac Nūn ܢܢ, and Arabic Nūn (in abjadi order). It is the third letter in Thaana , pronounced as "noonu".
Its sound value is .
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek nu (Ν), Etruscan , Latin N, and Cyrillic Н.
Nun may refer to:
Persons
- Nun, a female ascetic who chooses to voluntarily leave the world and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent
- Nun (Bible), a Biblical figure who is the father of Joshua, the right-hand man and successor of Moses
- Nun, Elizabethan-era slang for a prostitute (a nunnery referred to a brothel as well as a genuine nunnery)
Places
- Nun, the higher of the two major peaks of the Nun Kun massif in Kashmir, India
- Nun River, Nigeria
- Mount Nun, mountain in Jammu and Kashmir, India
- Nun, an alternate spelling for Nu, the name by which ancient Egyptians called both the mysterious underworld from where life was renewed and the primordial god residing there (the name translates as "Abyss")
Animals
- Nun (pigeon), a breed of domestic pigeon
- Nun (fish), a hillstream loach genus
Other
- Nun (letter), the fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets
- Nun, a kind of sea mark
- The Nuns, a San Francisco punk band
Nun , in the Hebrew Bible, was a man from the Tribe of Ephraim, grandson of Ammihud, son of Elishama, and father of Joshua.
Nun grew up in and may have lived his entire life in the Israelites' Egyptian captivity, where the Egyptians "made life bitter for them with harsh labor at mortar and bricks and with all sorts of tasks in the field." In Aramaic, " nun" means "fish". Thus the Midrash tells: "[T]he son of him whose name was as the name of a fish would lead them [the Israelites] into the land." ( Genesis Rabba 97:3.)
Tradition places Nun's tomb near that of his son Joshua who, according to , is buried in Timnat Serah whereas in Judges 2:9 it is mentioned as Timnath-heres.. The similarly named Palestinian village of Kifl Hares/Timnat Hares, located northwest of Ariel in the Samarian region of the West Bank, now encircles both tombs.
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Usage examples of "nun".
She related to me in the most assuring manner that the handsomest of all the nuns in the convent loved her to distraction, gave her a French lesson twice a-day, and had amicably forbidden her to become acquainted with the other boarders.
Das war die Wahrheit, und sie war die schwerste aller Lasten, die es nun zu tragen galt.
You shall hear the history of an amour that lasted for two years with the fairest and the best of all the nuns of Venice.
Exile anchoress turns out to be just as much of a fraud as the ministering nun in the hospice for the dying.
Whitford should be on him and his, till they helped the poor in the spirit of the nuns of Whitford, and the Nun-pool ran up to Ashy Down.
Pique--Reconciliation--The First Meeting--A Philosophical Parenthesis My beautiful nun had not spoken to me, and I was glad of it, for I was so astonished, so completely under the spell of her beauty, that I might have given her a very poor opinion of my intelligence by the rambling answers which I should very likely have given to her questions.
Besides the Nun, our female members include a sinister Virgin Huntress who seems to have wreaked mayhem or worse on one of the auberge counselors in order to qualify as a recidivist, and an extremely cautious ex-Meta Lady who is, at the moment at least, content to remain just one of the boys.
The man with all the pots and pans on his bicycle, the nun eating the baguette as she trundles along, the old woman shooing the geese, the businessman in his car eating a cake and attempting to look important.
When she had left us, the nun began to weep bitterly, accusing herself of the murder of the lay-sister, and thinking that she saw hell opening beneath her feet.
When I was alone with the nun, whose face filled me with such burning recollections, I began to speak of her health, and especially of the inconveniences attached to child-birth.
It is very natural for me to suppose that to the two thoughtless acts of which you have been guilty, you have added another not less serious, namely, that of having boasted of your exploits with the other nuns, and I do not want to be the butt of your jokes in cell or parlour.
Then Boule le Suif, in low, humble tones, invited the nuns to partake of her repast.