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Nun has 7 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a woman religious

"The local nun organized a food drive for the homeless shelter last weekend."

nun
2

a buoy resembling a cone

"The old lighthouse keeper warned us that the red nun marking the channel was beginning to sway dangerously in the storm."

3

the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

"In the Hebrew text, the word for peace begins with a nun followed by a peh and an ayin."

nun
4

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.

"In the study of ancient scripts, scholars noted that the character resembling a cross was originally 'nun' in Phoenician before evolving into different forms across various Semitic languages."

5

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