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11nunnery — UK [ˈnʌnərɪ] / US noun [countable] Word forms nunnery : singular nunnery plural nunneries mainly literary a convent …
12nunnery — noun a place of residence for nuns Get thee to a nunnery, why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? …
13Nunnery Hill Incline — The Nunnery Hill Incline was a funicular designed by Samuel Diescher in 1877. It was operational until 1899, and connected Federal Street to the Fineview neighborhood in Pittsburgh. It was one of a few inclines with a curve in the track. [1] See… …
14nunnery — [[t]nʌ̱nəri[/t]] nunneries N COUNT A nunnery is a group of buildings in which a community of nuns live together. [OLD FASHIONED] Syn: convent …
15nunnery — obsolete a brothel The religious orders provided many allusive words for sexual subjects before and for some decades after the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s, partly out of envy at the wealth of the Church and partly because …
16nunnery — noun (plural neries) Date: 14th century a convent of nuns …
17nunnery — /nun euh ree/, n., pl. nunneries. a building or group of buildings for nuns; convent. [1225 75; ME nonnerie. See NUN1, ERY] * * * …
18Nunnery Court — See Mitre Court6, Milk Street …
19nunnery — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. convent, cloister, cenacle, sisterhood, order. See temple. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. convent, priory, abbey; see cloister 1 , retreat 2 . See Synonym Study at cloister . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n …
20nunnery — nun|ne|ry [ˈnʌnəri] n plural nunneries old use a ↑convent …
