nuns

n. female member of a religious order (especially Catholic)

A nun is a woman who has taken special vows committing her to a religious life. She may be an ascetic who chooses to voluntarily leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent. The term "nun" is applicable to Roman Catholics, Eastern Christians, Anglicans, Jains, Lutherans, Buddhists, and Taoist, for example. The male equivalent of a nun is a monk.
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Noun
1. a woman religious
(hypernym) religious
(hyponym) Sister
2. a buoy resembling a cone
(synonym) conical buoy, nun buoy
(hypernym) buoy
3. the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
(hypernym) letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character
(member-holonym) Hebrew alphabet, Hebraic alphabet, Hebrew script

Nuns Women of any age vowed to a celibate and meditative life. Nuns have existed in organized communities in all parts of the world, apparently in all ages, for there were convents or similar groups in ancient Egypt, Rome, Hindustan, Greece, ancient Peru, and elsewhere. Before the nuns, who in Christendom were consecrated to the Virgin Mary, there were the Vestal Virgins of Rome, the maidens of Isis in Egypt, and the Devadasis of the Hindu temples, who originally "lived in great chastity, and were objects of the most extraordinary veneration" (IU 2:210). "They were the 'virgin brides' of their respective (Solar) gods. Says Herodotus, 'The brides of Ammon are excluded from all intercourse with men,' they are 'the brides of Heaven'; and virtually they became dead to the world, just as they are now. In Peru they were 'Pure Virgins of the Sun,' and the Pallakists [Pallakides] of Ammon-Ra are referred to in some inscriptions as the 'divine spouses' " (TG 234).

For a religiously inclined man to dream of nuns, foretells that material joys will interfere with his spirituality. He should be wise in the control of self.

For a woman to dream of nuns, foretells her widowhood, or her separation from her lover. If she dreams that she is a nun, it portends her discontentment with present environments.

To see a dead nun, signifies despair over the unfaithfulness of loved ones, and impoverished fortune.

For one to dream that she discards the robes of her order, foretells that longing for worldly pleasures will unfit her for her chosen duties.