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A nun is a woman who has joined a religious community, usually Christian, and lives with other nuns in a . She has made promises about her life — often poverty, , and obedience — and her days are built around prayer, work, and the rules of her order. Some nuns stay inside the ; others teach, nurse, or work among people outside. English speakers also stretch the word a little in jokes or stories (“she lives like a nun”) to mean a woman who lives very quietly and away from dating or parties, though that is loose talk, not the real job. In the Catholic Church the careful difference is that some religious women are nuns (more ) and some are sisters (more out in the world), but everyday English often says nun for both.
From the word’s history
From Old English nunne, from Late Latin nonna, originally a term of address for elderly persons.
源自古英文 nunne，來自晚期拉丁文 nonna，原是對長者的稱呼。
組成From Middle English nonne / nunne, from Old English nunne, from Late Latin nonna (“nun,” also “tutor”). It began as a warm name for an older person, perhaps from children’s talk, in the same family of sounds as nana and papa. Doublet of nonna.
同家族的字
- nunnerya nunnery is a house where nuns live (nun + -ery)
- nonnasame Late Latin nonna; in English you mainly meet nonna as the Italian word for grandmother
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Nunname詞源 1
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rareA male given name from Hebrew.
- And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Nunname詞源 2
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The languages of the Bamun people of western Cameroon.
nunnoun詞源 1/nʌn/
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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.
- Thus, when the nuns came to the mission and we saw that instead of murmuring soft blessings and gliding seraphically over the grass in diaphanous habits, they wore smart blouses and skirts and walked, laughed and talked in low twanging tones very much like our own American missionaries did, we were very disappointed.
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A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
- a Buddhist nun
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archaicslangA prostitute.
- Why laſt night, as Colonel Kill'em, Sir William Weezy, Lord Frederick Foretop, and I were careleſsly ſliding the Ranelagh round, picking our teeth, after a damn'd muzzy dinner at Boodle's, who ſhould trip by but an abbeſs, well known about town, with a ſmart little nun in her ſuite.
- "I mean to inform you," answered the Oxonian, with a grin on his face, "that those three nymphs, who have so much dazzled your optics, are three nuns, and the plump female is Mother .... of great notoriety [...]"
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A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
nunnoun詞源 2/nʊn/
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The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets or abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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