What Does NUN Mean?

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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. nunnoun

   a woman religious

2. conical buoy, nun, nun buoynoun

   a buoy resembling a cone

3. nunnoun

   the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

GCIDERate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. nunnoun

   The 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding in pronunciation to n.

2. nunnoun

   The 25th letter of the Arabic alphabet, corresponding in pronunciation to n.

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Nunnoun

   The languages of the Bamun people of western Cameroon.

2. Etymology: Ultimately from nūn-.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Nunnoun

   A woman dedicated to the severer duties of religion, secluded in a cloister from the world, and debarred by a vow from the converse of men.

   My daughtersShall be praying nuns, not weeping queens. William Shakespeare.

   The most blooming toast in the island might have been a nun. Joseph Addison, Freeholder, №. 4.

   Ev’ry shepherd was undone,To see her cloister’d like a nun. Jonathan Swift, Miscell.

2. Nunnoun

   A kind of bird. Robert Ainsworth

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. NUN

   A nun is a member of a religious community of women.

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1. nun

   A nun is a woman who has taken solemn vows, committing herself to a religious life, within certain Christian traditions such as the Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican/Episcopal churches or in Buddhist traditions. Nuns typically live in a monastery or convent under a communal rule and often spend their time in prayer, study, and work. Their level of interaction with the outside community varies depending on their religious order or tradition.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Nunnoun

   a woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience

2. Nunnoun

   a white variety of domestic pigeons having a veil of feathers covering the head

3. Nunnoun

   the smew

4. Nunnoun

   the European blue titmouse

5. Etymology: [OE. nunne, AS. nunne, fr. L. nonna nun, nonnus monk; cf. Gr. , ; of unknown origin. Cf. Nunnery.]

WikidataRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Nun

   A nun is a member of a religious community of women, typically one living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. She may be a woman who decided to dedicate her life to serving all other living beings, or to be an ascetic who voluntarily chooses to leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent. The term "nun" is applicable to Catholics, Orthodox Christians, Anglicans, Lutherans, Jains, Buddhists, Taoists, and Hindus, among other religions. While in common usage the terms "nun" and "Sister" are often used interchangeably, they are considered different ways of life, with a "nun" being a religious woman who lives a contemplative and cloistered life of meditation and prayer for the salvation of others, while a "Religious Sister", in religious institutes like Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity, lives an active vocation of both prayer and service, often to the needy, sick, poor, and uneducated.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Nun

   nun, n. a female who, under a vow, secludes herself in a religious house, to give her time to devotion: (zool.) a kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.—ns. Nun′-buoy, a buoy somewhat in the form of a double cone; Nun′nery, a house for nuns.—adj. Nun′nish.—ns. Nun′nishness; Nun's′-veil′ing, a woollen cloth, soft and thin, used by women for veils and dresses. [A.S. nunne—Low L. nunna, nonna, a nun, an old maiden lady, the orig. sig. being 'mother;' cf. Gr. nannē, aunt, Sans. nanā, a child's word for 'mother.']

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1. nun

   The nun symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the nun symbol and its characteristic.

2. NUN

   What does NUN stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the NUN acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Etymology and OriginsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Nun

   From the Italian nonna, a grandmother. Those who retired into convents originally were aged women. It was only in modern times that seminaries for girls were established in convents; this opened the way to maidens becoming deeply imbued with religious ideas and secluding themselves from the world by taking the veil.

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1. NUN

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Nun is ranked #67747 in terms of the most common surnames in America.The Nun surname appeared 291 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Nun.65.6% or 191 total occurrences were White.16.8% or 49 total occurrences were Asian.8.5% or 25 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.7.9% or 23 total occurrences were Black.

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1. • Buoy
   • Letter
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How to pronounce NUN?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of NUN in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of NUN in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of NUN in a Sentence

1. Amy Sherman-Palladino:

   Every character that was under 18 on TV at the time was like ‘f--k it’ [and having sex], we were trying to play the truth of who she was, I didn’t want her to get drunk at a party and be like ‘woo, what happened!’ We got to a point where the studio and network were like ‘she’s gotta have sex, is she a nun?’ … I wanted it to be Dean and I wanted it to be at a time when they weren’t together. He was that great first boyfriend that you struggle with that as your life goes on, and you’re like, ‘the first one was so nice… maybe I shouldn’t have left that guy.’ That was a big thing only because people were like ‘what’s with her not sleeping with boys?'.

2. Andrea Villarreal:

   I know people see The Nun and get scared, but Lucia tells The Nun mom that nun is protecting her.

3. Elise Armacost:

   (Cesnik) was a nun. The church was her life and the people important to her were in the church, the theory that she was killed because she knew something about abuse that was going on by priests within the church continues to be a theory, but is not the only theory. It continues to be one of several theories.

4. Madonna:

   How could I have been anything else but what I am, having been named Madonna. I would either have ended up a nun or this.

5. Robert Bloom:

   It's very difficult to impeach a nun of long standing.

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Popularity rank by frequency of use

NUN#10000#20394#100000

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNethttp://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=NUN
2. ^ GCIDEhttps://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=NUN
3. ^ Wiktionaryhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nun
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionaryhttps://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=NUN
5. ^ Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nun
6. ^ ChatGPThttps://chat.openai.com
7. ^ Webster Dictionaryhttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/NUN
8. ^ Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=NUN
9. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionaryhttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=NUN
10. ^ Etymology and Originshttps://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=NUN
11. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Recordshttps://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
12. ^ Usage in printed sourceshttps://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=NUN

Translations for NUN

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• ن, نون, راهبةArabic
• monjaCatalan, Valencian
• řeholnice, mniška, jeptiškaCzech
• nonneDanish
• Klosterschwester, Nonne, Ordensschwester, SchwesterGerman
• monaĥinoEsperanto
• monjaSpanish
• ن, نونPersian
• nunnaFinnish
• nunnaFaroese
• religieuse, bonne sœur, nonnain, nonne, monialeFrench
• cailleach dhubh, bean-chràbhaidhScottish Gaelic
• madre, monxaGalician
• נוןHebrew
• तपस्विनी, मठवासिनीHindi
• nővér, apácaHungarian
• suora, monacaItalian
• 修道女, 童貞, 尼僧, 尼Japanese
• 수녀, 비구니, 比丘尼, 修女Korean
• NonnLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
• noneMāori
• калуѓеркаMacedonian
• rahib perempuanMalay
• noen, non, zusterDutch
• nonneNorwegian
• mniszka, siostra zakonna, zakonnicaPolish
• madre, religiosa, monja, freiraPortuguese
• călugărițăRomanian
• нун, мона́шка, мона́хиняRussian
• monahinja, калуђерица, часна сестра, časna sestra, редовница, redovnica, kaluđerica, монахињаSerbo-Croatian
• rehoľníčka, mníškaSlovak
• nuna, redovnicaSlovene
• nunnaSwedish
• madreTagalog
• نونUrdu
• nữ tu sĩ, xơ, bà xơVietnamese
• kleudan, jikleudan, hikleudanVolapük
• 尼姑Chinese

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