how to pronounce nun

/nʌn/

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nun is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of nun in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… Italian nun mother Francis Cabrini who …”

meaning of nun

A nun is a member of a religious order of women who take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and live under the authority of a religious superior.

nun frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word nun occurs in english on average 4.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics nun can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that nun can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;