nunとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: nŭn, IPA: /nʌn/
• (Northern England, Ireland) IPA: /nʊn/
• Homophone: none
• 韻: -ʌn

名詞

nun (plural nuns)

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.

   Synonyms: sister, moniale, sistren, cloistress

   Antonyms: brother, friar, monk, frater

   • 1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 258:

     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. (by extension) A member of a similar female community in other confessions.

   a Buddhist nun

3. (archaic, British, slang) A prostitute.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prostitute

   • 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:

     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.

   • 1881, Pierce Egan, chapter 8, in Life in London‎, page 205:

     "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 [...]"

4. A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.

使用する際の注意点

• In Roman Catholicism, a distinction is often drawn, especially by members of female religious orders, between nuns and sisters, the former being cloistered and devoted primarily to prayer, while the latter being more active, doing work such as operating hospitals, caring for the poor, or teaching.

下位語

• See Poor Clare

派生語

関連する語

• (member of a religious community): nonnus
• (prostitute): abbess, abbot, Covent Garden nun

Further reading

• Nun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源 2

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

別の表記

• noon
• nūn

発音

• enPR: nŏŏn, IPA: /nʊn/ or enPR: no͞on, IPA: /nuːn/
• 韻: -ʊn, -uːn

名詞

nun (plural nuns)

1. The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets or abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

参考

• Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

Further reading

• Nun (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源 3

代名詞

nun

1. Pronunciation spelling of nothing.

参照

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “nun”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

使用する際の注意点

This is the customary abbreviation of this term as used in case citations. See, e.g., The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Nineteenth Edition (2010), "Geographical Terms: Australian states and Canadian provinces and territories", Table T10.2, p. 438.