Usually means: Member of a religious community.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word nun:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. nun: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nun: Merriam-Webster
  3. nun: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nun, nun: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nun: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nun: Vocabulary.com
  7. Nun, nun: Wordnik
  8. nun: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Nun, nun: Wiktionary
  10. nun: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. nun: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. nun: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. nun: Dictionary.com
  14. nun: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. nun: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Nun (Bible), Nun (biblical figure), Nun (disambiguation), Nun (letter), Nun, The Nun: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Nun: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. nun: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. nun: Rhymezone
  20. Nun: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. nun: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. nun: FreeDictionary.org
  23. nun: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. nun: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. NUN: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nun: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nun (religion), nun: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. nun: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  2. NUN: Acronym Finder
  3. NUN: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nun: Easton Bible
  2. Nun: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. nun: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. N.U.N: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See nunlike as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  (by extension) A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
noun:  (archaic, British, slang) A prostitute.
noun:  A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
noun:  The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets or abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
noun:  (very rare) A male given name from Hebrew.
noun:  The languages of the Bamun people of western Cameroon.

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