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Meanings of nun in English
Member of a religious community of women.
Related terms
Spanish
monja Usage of nun in English
1
Of course a nun wouldn't know when to let well enough alone.
2
What she needed now, the good nun said, was rest and sympathy.
3
Comments by the nun in charge of the children are given throughout.
4
One is said to be a nun who died four centuries ago.
5
She is a former nun who was debauched long ago by Docre.
6
The nun considered them all, calling them by name to step forward.
7
The nun in a letter said she wanted the Vatican to intervene.
8
Was it since the nun began to speak to the young man?
9
The good nun, I found out later, would pay for this admission.
10
But the nun, taking advantage of this break in the conversation, said:
11
The nun did not betray the least surprise at the sudden question.
12
I took her for the nun that hangs in that horrid room.
13
I want to see the nun you have got in your house.
14
Yet I make this sentimental genuflection before the nun and the charwoman.
15
I had come only to test my karma to be a nun.
16
The condition of the saintly nun became day by day more painful.
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Russian
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Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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