| nun | |
| 1. n. 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. | |
| 2. n. (by extension) A member of a similar female community in other confessions. | |
| 3. n. (archaic, British slang) A prostitute.(R:Farmer, volume=5, page=76) | |
| 4. n. A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun. | |
| 5. n. The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). | |
