| 单词 | nun |
| 释义 | nun (once / 455 pages) 1n 2n 3n A nun is a woman who's dedicated her life to religious observance. Most nuns spend their time praying or meditating and doing service work in their communities. You may picture a Catholic nun when you hear the word nun, but there are nuns of other faiths as well, including Hindus, Lutherans, Jains, and Buddhists. Nuns serve the poor and hungry, sometimes running schools or orphanages, and they have in common a strict dedication to religion. Nun comes from the Old English nunne, and the Late Latin nonna, "nun," originally a generic word for addressing an older person. WORD FAMILYnun: nunnery, nuns+/nunnery: nunneries USAGE EXAMPLESThe five nuns — four of whom are white — range in age from 50 to 75. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) She played “The Singing Nun,” for heaven’s sake. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) The Vatican requires at least three nuns to train novices to become nuns, prompting the decision to shut the abbey down. Seattle Times(Dec 26, 2016) 1 n a woman religious 2Exp|Hypo|Hyper Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu 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) Sister (Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a nun (and used as a form of address) religious a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience n the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet 3Hyper alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech n a buoy resembling a cone Syn|Hyper conical buoy, nun buoy buoy bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards |
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