Nunnery

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  • noun. A convent of nuns.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • A convent or cloister for the exclusive use of nuns.
  • Nuns collectively, or the institution or system of conventual life for women.
  • A name sometimes given to the triforium of a medieval church, since in some churches this gallery was set apart for the use of nuns attending them.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A house in which nuns reside; a cloister or convent in which women reside for life, under religious vows. See cloister, and convent.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a place of residence for nuns; a convent
  • noun. (obsolete) a brothel
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  • noun. the convent of a community of nuns
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