A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit
As in Theravadin countries, Tibetan women practitioners (generically called ani) could not traditionally attain the full ordination of bhikshuni, since the ordination lineage was held to have died out There were numerous communities of ani, but there were fewer of them than male monastics and their status was lower
A female member of a religious order Nuns take vows (a special kind of promise to God) and usually live in convents
(1) Strictly, a member of a religious order of women with solemn vows (moniales) (2) In general, all women religious, even those in simple vows who are more properly called sisters
A nun is a member of a female religious community. Mr Thomas was taught by the Catholic nuns whose school he attended. someone who is a member of a group of religious women that live together in a convent monk (nonna). or Nu Oldest of the Egyptian gods and father of Re, the sun god. Nun represented the dark, turbulent waters out of which the cosmos was churned. Since it was believed that the primeval ocean continued to surround the ordered cosmos, the creation myth was reenacted each day as the sun rose from the waters. Nun was also thought to exist as subsoil water and as the source of the annual flooding of the Nile. Nun River Nu Kua Hsiung nu Nu U Thakin Nu Nu Jiang