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Synonyms for nun
nʌnnun
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Princeton's WordNet
nunnoun
a woman religious
Synonyms:
conical buoy, nun buoyconical buoy, nun, nun buoynoun
a buoy resembling a cone
Synonyms:
conical buoy, nun buoynunnoun
the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Synonyms:
conical buoy, nun buoy
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How to use nun in a sentence?
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.
It's very difficult to impeach a nun of long standing.
Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.
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?'.
(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.
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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