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nun

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: nun

1
 n
a woman religious
2
 n
the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
3
 n
a buoy resembling a cone
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: nun
1

n a woman religious

Examples:
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
Indian nun and missionary in the Roman Catholic Church (born of Albanian parents in what is now Macedonia); dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997)
Types:
Sister
(Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a nun (and used as a form of address)
Type of:
religious
a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience
2

n the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

Type of:
alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet
the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
3

n a buoy resembling a cone

Synonyms:
conical buoy, nun buoy
Type of:
buoy
bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards
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