nun

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nun /nʌn/ noun [countable]  RRsomeone who is a member of a group of religious women that live together in a convent 修女；尼姑 → monk

Examples from the Corpus

nun• Georgiana later marries, and Eliza becomes a nun.• These monks and nuns do not do this for their own good.• The sun was beating down on our backs and our throats were becoming as dry as a proverbial nuns.• A single nun, working in an unorthodox manner in the slums, made some of the local clergy distinctly uncomfortable.• On the day of the crowning, the nuns gave all of us girls crowns of flowers to wear in our hair.• According to more than one witness, one of the nuns had her shoulder broken.Origin nun (900-1000) Late Latin nonna

nun nounChinese  

who of religious member a of Corpus women someone a is group

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nun /nʌn/ noun [countable]someone who is a member of a group of religious women that live together in a convent ⇨ monk

nunBrE /nʌn/ 🔊NAmE /nʌn/ 🔊 nouna member of a religious community of women who promise to serve God all their lives and often live together in a convent 修女；尼姑  ➡  compare monk