nunnery
noun
a building or group of buildings for nuns; convent.
nunneries
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pluralof nunnery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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They have blazed a path of progress in recent decades for Buddhist women — from education through advanced degrees and the creation of nunneries to seeking full ordination.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
A group of crows is a murder; pandas, an embarrassment; nuns, a superfluity — a term that dates to the Middle Ages, when nunneries were overcrowded, lice-ridden and destitute.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2021
Alison Brie: Yes, and we read books on nuns and nunneries and medieval times to prepare for this film.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2017
“Cultural assimilation is bound to happen, but we have a Tibetan monastery, schools, nunneries and settlements,” said the elected settlement officer of Dharamsala’s Tibetan Settlement Office.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 18, 2014
“They en’t CCD. They’re called summing like the Security of the Holy Spirit, summing like that. They guard religious places—seminaries, nunneries, schools, that sort of place. They prob’ly come from Wallingford, from the priory there.”
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
