NUN
Dictionary entry overview: What does nun mean?
• NUN (noun)
The noun NUN has 3 senses:
1. a woman religious
2. a buoy resembling a cone
3. the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Familiarity information: NUN used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• NUN (noun)
Meaning:
A woman religious
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("nun" is a kind of...):
religious (a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nun"):
Sister ((Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a nun (and used as a form of address))
Instance hyponyms:
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu; Mother Teresa; Mother Theresa; Teresa; Theresa (Indian nun and missionary in the Roman Catholic Church (born of Albanian parents in what is now Macedonia); dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997))
Meaning:
A buoy resembling a cone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
conical buoy; nun buoy; nun
Hypernyms ("nun" is a kind of...):
buoy (bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards)
Meaning:
The 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("nun" is a kind of...):
alphabetic character; letter; letter of the alphabet (the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech)
Holonyms ("nun" is a member of...):
Hebraic alphabet; Hebrew alphabet; Hebrew script (a Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino))
