What is the name meaning of NUNNERY. Phrases containing NUNNERY
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NUNNERY
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English
English : perhaps from Middle English nonnerie ‘nunnery’, applied as a topographic name for someone who lived by a nunnery or a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked at one.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : from Old French paradis, denoting someone who lived by a park or pleasure garden, especially one attached to a monastery, nunnery, or cathedral.Americanized form of French Paradis or Italian Paradiso.Americanized form of a Greek family name such as Paradissis, Paradissiadis, or Paradissopoulos, from a personal name based on ancient Greek paradeisos ‘paradise’, ‘pleasure garden’, from Persian pairidaesa ‘royal park’.Americanized form of German Paradies, a German topographic name and house name and an ornamental Ashkenazic Jewish name, from Middle High German paradīs(e), German Paradies ‘paradise’, ‘park’, ‘pleasure garden’ (see 1 and 3).
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Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim, Pakistani, Urdu
Garden of Heaven
Male
Chinese
well-being.
Girl/Female
Bengali, Indian
Veda Varshita
Boy/Male
English
From the Estate at the Hollow
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Kent and Wiltshire, named Gore, from Old English gÄra ‘triangular piece of land’ (a derivative of gÄr ‘spear’, with reference to the triangular shape of a spearhead).French : nickname for a gluttonous and idle individual, from Old French gore ‘sow’ (of allegedly imitative origin, reflecting the grunting of the animal).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from a variant of Dunn 2.English : variant (plural) of Down.
Boy/Male
British, English
From the Clear Brook; From the Bright Stream
Girl/Female
Hindu
Good luck, Perfection, Wealth
Male
Chinese
master of arts.
Male
Arthurian
, a king; Percevel's father (?) or uncle (?).
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NUNNERY
n.
A house in which nuns reside; a cloister or convent in which women reside for life, under religious vows. See Cloister, and Convent.
n.
A nunnery; -- a term still applied to the ruins of certain nunneries in England.
n.
A woman who acts as chief in a convent, abbey, or nunnery; a lady superior.
v. i.
A house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery.
n.
The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without.
pl.
of Nunnery
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A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. See Abbey.