NUN
\nˈʌn], \nˈʌn], \n_ˈʌ_n]\
Definitions of NUN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A white variety of domestic pigeons having a veil of feathers covering the head.
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The European blue titmouse.
By Oddity Software
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A white variety of domestic pigeons having a veil of feathers covering the head.
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The European blue titmouse.
By Noah Webster.
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A woman living in a convent and devoted to a religious life, under a vow of poverty and obedience to a superior.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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In R. Cath. Church, a female who devotes herself to celibacy and seclusion: (zool.) a kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A woman devoted, in celibacy and seclusion, to a religious life; the blue titmouse; a kind of pigeon.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [French, Italian] A woman devoted to a religious life, living in a cloister or house secluded from the world, and vowed to celibacy , &c. ;- also a woman devoted to religious and charitable service, but not cloistered, and not bound to celibacy ; beguine ; sister of charity ;- a kind of white fancy pigeon ;- the blue titmouse.
