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The correct spelling is nun.
How to pronounce nun
/nʌn/
nounIPA: /nʌn/
Say it like: Nun
The correct spelling is nun. A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (specifically) those living together in a cloister.
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Definition
noun
- 1.A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (specifically) those living together in a cloister.
- 2.(by extension) A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
- 3.A prostitute.
- 4.A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
- 5.The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
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