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nun

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Noun

  1. 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.
  2. A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
  3. A prostitute.
  4. A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
  5. The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets or abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Pronoun

  1. Pronunciation spelling of nothing.

Proper noun

  1. A male given name from Hebrew.
  2. The languages of the Bamun people of western Cameroon.

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