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Crossword-Solution: NUN 3 letters, 442 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 3

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Word Word Type Definition
Nun n. A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent,
under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
Nun n. A white variety of domestic pigeons having a veil of feathers
covering the head.
Nun n. The smew.
Nun n. The European blue titmouse.

We have 442 clues for the answer “NUN”

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"Blood Sister: One Tough ___" (film described in Endnote 24 of "Infinite Jest") 1 answer
"Dominique" singer, for one 1 answer
"Flying" Field role 1 answer
"Flying" role for Sally Field, and hint to this puzzle's theme 1 answer
"Lilies of the Field" character 1 answer
"Lilies of the Field" extra 1 answer
"Lilies of the Field" role 1 answer
"Madeline" character Miss Clavel, e.g. 1 answer
"Maria" singer in "The Sound of Music" 1 answer
"Sister Act" character 1 answer
"Sister Act" extra 1 answer
"Sister Act" role 1 answer
"Sister Act" sister 1 answer
"Sister of God" 1 answer
"The Sound of Music" extra 1 answer
"The holy time is quiet as a ___": Wordsworth 1 answer
14th Hebrew letter 1 answer
A buoy 1 answer
A deaness is one 1 answer
Abbess subordinate 1 answer
Abbess's charge 1 answer
Abbess, e.g. 1 answer
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, famously 1 answer
Agnes in "Agnes of God," e.g. 1 answer
Agnes of "Agnes of God," for one 1 answer
Any of several main roles in the 1981 horror movie "The Other Hell" 1 answer
Any singer of the Broadway lyric "How do you solve a problem like Maria?" 1 answer
Anybodys sister 1 answer
Art expert Sister Wendy, e.g. 1 answer
Audra McDonald played one in "The Sound of Music Live!" 1 answer
BERTRILLE 1 answer
Bernadette, for one 1 answer
Bhikkhuni : Buddhism :: ___ : Catholicism 1 answer
Blue ___: German wine brand 1 answer
Breed of pigeons. 1 answer
Calling for a religious woman 1 answer
Cape on Atlantic coast of Morocco. 1 answer
Carmelite, e.g. 1 answer
Carmelite, perhaps 1 answer
Carmelitess. 1 answer
Catholic school teacher, perhaps 1 answer
Catholic sister 1 answer
Catholic-school disciplinarian 1 answer
Celibate sister 1 answer
Cell habitant 1 answer
Certain Dominican 1 answer
Certain mother or sister 1 answer
Certain prayer 1 answer
Certain rosary counter 1 answer
Certain sister 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NUN (5)

More than once the handsome gentleman was torn to pieces before the French class by an indignant nun.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Then Tom became Robin Hood again, and was allowed by the treacherous nun to bleed his strength away through his neglected wound.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
She has been at it half an hour; I envy her capacity!” “Have you never felt in any degree,” Rowland asked, “the fascination of Catholicism?” “Yes, I have been through that, too! There was a time when I wanted immensely to be a nun; it was not a laughing matter.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006
But it was one thing to be a Catholic, and another to turn nun—on your hand! There was something lugubriously comical in the way Newman’s thoroughly contemporaneous optimism was confronted with this dusky old-world expedient.
The American Henry James 1994
And— “It was a beauteous evening, calm and pure, And breathing holy quiet like a nun.” These were like herself.
Sons and Lovers David Herbert Lawrence 1995

Quotes with NUN (3)

Did you ever want to set someone's head on fire, just to see what it looked like? Did you ever stand in the street and think to yourself, I could make that nun go blind just by giving her a kiss? Did you ever lay out plans for stitching babies and stray cats into a Perfect New Human? Did you ever stand naked surrounded by people who want your gleaming sperm, squirting frankincense, soma and testosterone from every pore? If so, then you're the bastard who stole my drugs Friday…
Warren Ellis Transmetropolitan, Vol. 5: Lonely City
I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it.
Emma Goldman Living My Life
A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)
Markus Zusak The Book Thief
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 642 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).