nun
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A nun is a woman who has taken religious vows and lives in a community devoted to prayer, contemplation, and service.
Nuns typically reside in convents and follow strict rules of their order—poverty, chastity, and obedience being common requirements.
The term applies primarily to Catholic and Orthodox Christian women, though similar roles exist in Buddhism and other faiths.
She became a nun at twenty-two. (Capitalized Nun is a Hebrew letter.)
Female sibling
- veilFabric that obscures
- habitSettled regular tendency
- conventReligious sisters' dwelling
- cloisterCovered monastic walkway
vow · prayer · celibacy · piety · devotion · monastery · abbey · rosary
Settled regular tendency
- veilFabric that obscures
- wimpleCloth framing the face
- coifArranged hair style
- scapularRelating to shoulder blade
cincture · crucifix · rosary · tunic · sandals · ring · black · white
Order's principal convent
- cloisterCovered monastic walkway
- enclosureConfined, bordered space
- cellBasic unit of life
- refectoryInstitutional dining room
chapel · dormitory · chapterhouse · scriptorium · parlour · grille · garden · infirmary
Religious training period
- professionTrained occupational field
- vowsSolemn binding promises
- ordinationClergy appointment ceremony
- callingStrongly felt purpose
discernment · formation · entrance · ceremony · religious life · canonical · obedience · poverty
sister
Female sibling
cloister · vow · prayer · celibacy · piety · devotion · monastery · abbey · rosary · wimple
habit
Settled regular tendency
scapular · cincture · crucifix · rosary · tunic · sandals · ring · black · white · brown
motherhouse
Order's principal convent
refectory · chapel · dormitory · chapterhouse · scriptorium · parlour · grille · garden · infirmary · sacristy
novitiate
Religious training period
- professionTrained occupational field
- vowsSolemn binding promises
- ordinationClergy appointment ceremony
calling · discernment · formation · entrance · ceremony · religious life · canonical · obedience · poverty · service
blue tit
Small Eurasian songbird
- EurasianOf two connected continents
- passerinePerching bird order member
- songbirdMelodious perching avian
feathers · plumage · nesting · woodland · hedgerow · birdwatcher · ornithology · flock · perch · birdsong
- CatholicismVatican, cardinals, pope, Holy Communion, popes
- Medieval Europekings, queens, knights, castles, castle
- Palindromesmom, dad, pop, noon, level
- historical rolesking, queen, emperor, knight, peasant
- solitary lifestylesolitude, isolation, hermit, loner, privacy
- Catholicsparishioners, parishioner, communicant, archbishops, lapsed Catholic
nunlaywoman
Unordained female church member
layperson · secular · career woman · socialite · party girl
nunprostitute
One who sells sex
harlot · whore · courtesan · scarlet woman · jezebel
- Catholic nunsFemale monastics under papal authority
- Buddhist nunOrdained female monastic
- The NunFemale monastic devotee
- nun habitReligious sister's clothing
- cloistered nunsReligious women in seclusion