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nun

noun
/nʌn//nʊn/

Etymology

From Middle English nonne, nunne, from Old English nunne (“nun”), from Late Latin nonna (“nun, tutor”), originally (along with masculine form nonnus (“man”)) a term of address for elderly persons, perhaps from children's speech, reminiscent of nana, like papa etc. Doublet of nonna.

  1. derived from nonna
  2. inherited from nunne
  3. inherited from nonne

Definitions

  1. A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually…

    A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together in a cloister.

  2. A member of a similar female community in other confessions.

    • a Buddhist nun

  3. A prostitute.

    • "I mean to inform you," answered the Oxonian, with a grin on his face, "that those three nymphs, who have so much dazzled your optics, are three nuns, and the plump female is Mother .... of great notoriety [...]"
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.

    2. The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets or abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew,…

      The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets or abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

    3. Pronunciation spelling of nothing.

    4. A male given name from Hebrew.

      • And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.

    5. The languages of the Bamun people of western Cameroon.

The neighborhood

Derived

corporate nun, dry as a nun's cunt, dry as a nun's nasty, nunate, nunation, nunbird, nun buoy, nun-coloured, nunhood, nunless, nunlet, nunlike, nun-like, nunly, Nun Monkton, nun moth, nunnation, nunnery, nunnish, Nun of the Visitation, nunship, nunsploitation, nun's thread, unnun

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at nun. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01nun02confessions03confession04sacrament05ceremony06ritual07religious08religion09nuns

A definitional loop anchored at nun. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at nun

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA