nun

名词 n. 代词 pron.
中文释义
发音 nŭn

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — 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.
  2. The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets or abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
  3. A member of a similar female community in other confessions. broadly
    — a Buddhist nun
  4. A prostitute. UK,archaic,slang
    — 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.
  5. A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
代词 pron.
  1. Pronunciation spelling of nothing. alt-of,pronunciation-spelling

词形变化

nuns plural nuns plural noon alternative nūn alternative

词汇关系

下位词
Poor Clare
衍生词
corporate nun dry as a nun's cunt dry as a nun's nasty nunate nunation nunbird nun buoy nun-coloured nunhood nunless nunlet nunlike nun-like nunly Nun Monkton nun moth nunnation nunnery nunnish Nun of the Visitation nunship nunsploitation nun's thread unnun

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
Borrowed from the letter’s name in the respective language. Doublet of nu.
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