Definition of Nunneries. Meaning of Nunneries. Synonyms of Nunneries

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Definition of Nunneries

Nunneries
Nunnery Nun"ner*y, n.; pl. Nunneries. [OE. nonnerie, OF. nonerie, F. nonnerie, fr. nonne nun, L. nonna. See Nun.] A house in which nuns reside; a cloister or convent in which women reside for life, under religious vows. See Cloister, and Convent.

Meaning of Nunneries from wikipedia

- A convent is an enclosed community of monks, nuns, friars or religious sisters. Alternatively, convent means the building used by the community. The term...
- ****umption that "nunnery" was used that way in slang, or that Hamlet intended such a meaning. The context of the scene suggests that a nunnery would not be...
- Cultural Revolution. It is the largest and oldest Tibetan nunnery in India. Since most of the nunneries in Tibet are no longer operational, it may be the largest...
- The Iona Nunnery was an Augustinian convent of nuns located on the island of Iona in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It was established sometime after...
- incorporated English nunneries were Tarrant Kaines in Dorset and Marham Abbey in Norfolk. As Williams has recorded: "Six Lincolnshire nunneries that claimed to...
- The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (Latin: Ordo Sancti Benedicti, abbreviated as O.S.B. or OSB), are a mainly contemplative monastic...
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (D) s.a. 955. Yorke, Nunneries and the Anglo-Saxon royal houses. p. 83. Yorke, Nunneries and the Anglo-Saxon royal houses. p. 115...
- including four nunneries, which are all located in the foothills above Lhasa. The nunneries established are the Chupzang Nunnery, the Garu Nunnery, the Negodong...
- men and boys are funded by the state or have private benefactors, but nunneries receive no government funding. According to Bhutan Nuns Foundation, many...
- the cause of the nuns in Buddhist nunneries. The nunnery at Jelichung was expanded, in addition to the Wakahal nunnery, between 1995 and 1998, after awareness...