Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun nun

3 senses of nun

Sense 1
nun -- (a woman religious)
       => religious -- (a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience)

Sense 2
conical buoy, nun, nun buoy -- (a buoy resembling a cone)
       => buoy -- (bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards)

Sense 3
nun -- (the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
       => letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character -- (the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters")