nunnery
12
8.1
- noun
- /ˈnʌnəri/
:
convento
- The women at the nunnery spend their days in prayer and community service.
- New nunnery
She's left the nunnery and she's crazy in the Vatican because of the fact that she's an escaped nun or a nun who is leaving.
- She's left the nunnery and she's crazy in the Vatican because of the fact that she's an escaped nun or a nun who is leaving.
- South Abelard goes off to one place and she goes to this, this nunnery in Argentwa.
Examples
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Welcome to the nunnery.
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You better get thee to a nunnery.
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Put you in a nunnery perhaps, like your crazy mother.
Fiction book (1999) -
I told you to get to the nunnery.
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Run along, back to the nunnery.
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We found a cute house across the street from the nunnery.
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No one would even think of looking for us in a nunnery.
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No one could explain her turning to the nunnery.
Fiction book (1994) -
Go thy ways to a nunnery.
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In many respects, entering a nunnery, especially in this secular age, is a romantic experience.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
108
6.0
A building where monks live, work, and pray together
81
6.5
A large building where monks or nuns live and worship
64
5.6
A building where nuns live and pray together
7
9.9
A building where monks or nuns live and pray
4
9.1
A place where monks or nuns live away from the rest of the world
2
4.8
A group of women, often nuns, who live together for a religious life
1
8.1
The main house of a religious group where leaders live and run its work
A place where people live apart to focus on religion, like a monastery or convent
How Religious
81
6.5
108
6.0
12
8.1
∞
1.0
114
2.8
- US
64
1.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nunnery comes from nun, which in turn comes from the Latin nonna, meaning 'a woman' or 'nun'. The ending -ery marks a place or group, so nunnery simply means the 'place of nuns', a home where nuns live and work.