nunneries
Cloistered women's communities
Nunneries is the plural of nunnery, a convent or residence where nuns live in religious community.
The word has an archaic or literary flavor; convent is more common in contemporary usage.
Hamlet's bitter Get thee to a nunnery plays on an Elizabethan double meaning—nunnery was also slang for a brothel.
Covered monastic walkway
- retreatSanctuary or withdrawal
- hermitageSecluded religious dwelling
- enclosureConfined, bordered space
- quietudeState of calm stillness
contemplation · meditation · silence · solitude · withdrawal · sequestered · cloistered · grille
Abstaining from intimate relations
- virginityAbsence of carnal experience
- purityUncontaminated quality
- vowsSolemn binding promises
- continenceControl over bodily functions
modesty · abstinence · virtue · renunciation
Place of safety
- asylumShelter from persecution
- havenShelter from danger
- shelterProtected place or structure
- protectionGuarding against harm
cloister
Covered monastic walkway
quietude · contemplation · meditation · silence · solitude · withdrawal · sequestered · cloistered · grille · parlor
celibacy
Abstaining from intimate relations
continence · modesty · abstinence · virtue · renunciation
refuge
Place of safety
protection · safehouse · respite · escape · protection · rescue · hiding · medieval
prayer
Address to deity
altar · sacredness · holiness · vows · rituals · chant · mass · breviary · devotions · vigils
- nunssister, sisters, convent, convents, habit
- Taiwanese Buddhismevening service, Buddhist monasteries, bodhisattvas, Buddha statues
- Medieval Womenabbess, noblewoman, lady, queen, duchess
- Buddhist Nunsabbess
nunneriesmonasteries
Residences for religious brothers
abbeys · friaries · priories · hermitages · seminaries
nunneriesbrothels
Establishments for paid sex
nightclubs · casinos · taverns · bordellos · saloons
nunneriesbrothels
Establishments for paid sex
harems · bordellos · maternity wards · fertility clinics · seraglios