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name
A male given name from Hebrew.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
The languages of the Bamun people of western Cameroon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: sister, moniale, sistren, cloistress
Antonyms: brother, friar, monk, frater
noun
A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A prostitute.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, archaic, slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: abandons, alley cat, almah, bangtail, Bankside lady, bargirl, bat, beotch, blouze, blowen, blowsabella, brass nail, brasser, brass, broad, business girl, calico queen, callet, cat, chippy, chromo, coaster, cockatrice, cocotte, comfort girl, comfort woman, commoner, Covent Garden nun, creature of the night, croshabell, daughter of joy, dollymop, doxy, drab, Dutch widow, escort, fille de joie, flap, floozie, fornicatrix, frail sister, Fulham virgin, gamester, gay lady, geebag, gillian, gill, girl of the game, girl rented overnight, good-time girl, GRO, hackney, harlot, Haymarket ware, hireling, 'ho, hoer, hoe, hook, hooker, hustler, Japayuki-san, jay, karayuki-san, laced mutton, lady of leisure, lady of light virtue, lady of pleasure, lady of the evening, lady of the game, lady of the night, lightskirt, loose woman, meat puppet, mermaid, minx, mob, moll, mort wap-apace, mot, mud kicker, mud-kicker, mudkicker, musk cat, mutton, nun, nymph of darkness, nymph of the pavé, nymph of the pavement, painted lady, Paphian, party girl, pavement princess, perdita, pimpette, pretty horsebreaker, priestess of Venus, pro skirt, prossie, prossy, pross, prostie, prostitute, prostitutor, prosty, prozzie, prozzy, pro, public woman, pucelle, puella publica, pug, punk, pussygirl, puta, put, quail, quean, quene, quiff, ribibe, scrubber, sex labourer, sex worker, skainsmate, skivvy, slag, slapper, slit, slut, sodomitess, soiled dove, stem siren, stew, street taco, strumpet, succubus, tart, tawaif, thotty, thot, tib, tom, treddle, trick turner, trollop, trug, trull, tweak, vice girl, wanton, wapping dell, wapping moll, wapping mort, wench, whore, woman of easy virtue, woman of ill fame, woman of ill repute, woman of the night, woman of the street, woman of the town, working girl
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets or abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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pron
Pronunciation spelling of nothing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
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noun
the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character
noun
a buoy resembling a cone
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: conical buoy, nun buoy
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: buoy
noun
a woman religious
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: religious
Narrower terms: Sister, Teresa, Mother Teresa, Theresa, Mother Theresa, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
History
From Hebrew.
From Middle English nonne, nunne, from Old English nunne (“nun”), from Late Latin nonna (“nun, tutor”), originally (along with masculine form nonnus (“man”)) a term of address for elderly persons, perhaps from children's speech, reminiscent of nana, like papa etc. Doublet of nonna.
Borrowed from the letter’s name in the respective language. Doublet of nu.
Across languages
170 source translations are retained for this English entry.
