Nunnery
['nʌn(ə)rɪ] or ['nʌnəri]
Definition
(n.) A house in which nuns reside; a cloister or convent in which women reside for life, under religious vows. See Cloister, and Convent.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Convent, cloister, abbey, monastery.
Typist: Nelly
Examples
- He can't get into mischief in that little nunnery over there, and Mrs. March is doing more for him than we can. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I shall take up my abode in a religious house near Lisle--a nunnery you would call it; there I shall be quiet and unmolested. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In the bottom lie the ruins of a nunnery. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- For this marriage to Casaubon is as good as going to a nunnery. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They delighted in the burning of monasteries and nunneries and the slaughter of their inmates. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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