nun
Plural: nuns
Noun
- A woman living in a religious community under vows.
- a woman religious
- a buoy resembling a cone
- the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
- 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.
- A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
- A prostitute.
- A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
- The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets or abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
Pron
- Pronunciation spelling of nothing.
Examples
- a Buddhist nun
- The word ’NUN’ was simple, yet strategically important for opening a double letter score.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
conical buoy, nun buoy, 'ho, Bankside lady, Covent Garden nun, Dutch widow, Fulham virgin, GRO, Haymarket ware, Japayuki-san, KTV girl, Paphian, Suzi Wong, Suzie Wong, Suzy Wong, abandons, alley cat, almah, bangtail, bargirl, bat, beotch, blouze, blowen, blowsabella, brass, brass nail, brasser, broad, business girl, calico queen, callet, cat, chippy, chromo, cloistress, coaster, cockatrice, cocotte, comfort girl, comfort woman, commoner, creature of the night, croshabell, daughter of joy, dollymop, doxy, drab, escort, fille de joie, flap, floozie, fornicatrix, frail sister, gamester, gay lady, geebag, gill, gillian, girl rented overnight, good-time girl, hackney, harlot, hireling, hoe, hoer, hook, hooker, hustler, jay, karayuki-san, laced mutton, lady of leisure, lady of light virtue, lady of pleasure, lady of the evening, lady of the night, lightskirt, loose woman, lot lizard, meat puppet, meretrix, mermaid, minx, mob, moll, moniale, mort wap-apace, mot, mud kicker, mud-kicker, mudkicker, musk cat, mutton, nun, nymph of darkness, nymph of the pavement, nymph of the pavé, painted lady, party girl, pavement princess, perdita, pimpette, pretty horsebreaker, priestess of Venus, pro, pro skirt, pross, prossie, prossy, prostie, prostitute, prostitutor, prosty, prozzie, prozzy, public woman, pucelle, puella publica, pug, punk, pussygirl, put, puta, quail, quean, quene, quiff, ribibe, scrubber, sex labourer, sex worker, sister, sistren, skainsmate, skivvy, slag, slapper, slit, slut, sodomitess, soiled dove, stem siren, stew, street taco, strumpet, succubus, tart, tawaif, thot, thotty, tib, tom, treddle, trick turner, trollop, trug, trull, tweak, vice girl, wanton, wapping dell, wapping moll, wapping mort, wench, whore, woman of easy virtue, woman of ill fame, woman of ill repute, woman of the night, woman of the street, woman of the town, working girl
Scrabble Score: 3
nun: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordnun: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
nun: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary