Usually means: Women dedicated to religious life.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word nuns:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. nuns: Merriam-Webster
  2. nuns: Collins English Dictionary
  3. nuns: Vocabulary.com
  4. Nun's, Nuns, nun's, nuns, nuns: Wordnik
  5. nuns: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. nuns: Wiktionary
  7. nuns: Dictionary.com
  8. nuns: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Nuns, The Nuns (album), The Nuns: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Nuns: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nuns: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. NUNS: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nuns: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Nun)

noun:  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.
noun:  (by extension) A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
noun:  (archaic, British, slang) A prostitute.
noun:  A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
noun:  The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets or abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
noun:  (very rare) A male given name from Hebrew.
noun:  The languages of the Bamun people of western Cameroon.
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