: a woman belonging to a religious order
especially
: one under solemn vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
: the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet see Alphabet Table
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2024
Admire the Church of Santa Caterina and sample the nuns’ pastries.
—Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 21 Nov. 2024
Cher was briefly raised by nuns Cher’s early childhood was peppered with bouts of extreme poverty and tenuous.
—Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
The hilarious scene saw Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu go undercover as nuns in order to garner information from Fisher’s Mother Superior.
—EW.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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Noun
Instead, Amy Adams, whose performance as a meek nun in Doubt was her second Oscar nomination after Junebug, reaps that windfall and wins her Oscar nice and early in her career.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2024
Admire the Church of Santa Caterina and sample the nuns’ pastries.
—Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 21 Nov. 2024
Cher was briefly raised by nuns Cher’s early childhood was peppered with bouts of extreme poverty and tenuous.
—Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
The hilarious scene saw Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu go undercover as nuns in order to garner information from Fisher’s Mother Superior.
—EW.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Nun.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nun. Accessed 12 Dec. 2024.
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