nun

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A woman who has taken religious vows and lives in a convent as part of a religious order.

• She became a nun after graduating from college.
• The nuns ran a small school in the village.
• Mother Teresa was perhaps the most famous nun of the 20th century.
• Medieval manuscripts reveal that many nuns were highly educated women who preserved classical texts through meticulous copying and translation.
• The anthropologist documented how nuns in the Himalayan region balanced contemplative practice with managing agricultural cooperatives for local farmers.
• During the cholera outbreak in nineteenth-century London, a group of nuns established makeshift clinics that became models for modern emergency healthcare facilities.

Eş anlamlılar: sister, religious sister, monastics