How do you use the word "nun" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "nun" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "nun": Mother Teresa was a Catholic nun who lived and worked in Calcutta, India. When she became a nun, she took the name Sister Teresa.

Nun Meaning

/nʌn/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA 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.

nounA member of a similar female community in other confessions.

Sentence Examples

Mother Teresa was a Catholic nun who lived and worked in Calcutta, India.

When she became a nun, she took the name Sister Teresa.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The quiet ____ spent hours in the chapel reading from the holy book.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

After years of contemplation, she decided to join the convent and live her life as a ____.

Word Origin & History

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.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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." — 1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 258:

"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." — 1770, Samuel Foote, The Lame Lover, a Comedy in Three Acts. […], London: […] Paul Vaillant; and sold by P[eter] Elmsly […]; and Robinson and Roberts, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 12:

""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 [...]"" — 1881, Pierce Egan, chapter 8, in Life in London, page 205:

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