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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.

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nun

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/nʌn/

Noun

broadly Britain archaic slang

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.

Japanese Meaning

修道女

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The old nun tended the convent garden every morning before sunrise.

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その年配の修道女は毎朝日の出前に修道院の庭の手入れをしていた。

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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.

Sense（2）

(by extension) A member of a similar female community in other confessions.

a Buddhist nun

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(archaic, Britain, slang) A prostitute.

Why laſt night, as Colonel Kill'em, Sir William Weezy, Lord Frederick Foretop, and I were careleſsly ſliding the Ranelagh round, picking our teeth, after a damn'd muzzy dinner at Boodle's, who ſhould trip by but an abbeſs, well known about town, with a ſmart little nun in her ſuite.

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A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.

nuns

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