1. A woman religious
   "The nun devoted her life to serving the poor";
   - sister
    
2. A buoy resembling a cone
   "The sailors navigated carefully around the nun marking the shallow reef";
   - conical buoy, nun buoy
    
3. The 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
   "The Hebrew letter nun is used in the spelling of many biblical names"

Sounds like: Nome, gnome

Derived forms: nuns

Type of: alphabetic character, buoy, letter, letter of the alphabet, religious

Part of: Hebraic alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew script

Encyclopedia: Nun, liebe Seel, nun ist es Zeit