Definitions for Nunnery

Nunnery nun·ner·y

Spelling: [nuhn-uh-ree]
IPA: /ˈnʌn ə ri/

Nunnery is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in Nunnery (ennnruy).

Definitions for Nunnery

noun

  1. a building or group of buildings for nuns; convent.

Origin of Nunnery

First recorded in 1225-75, nunnery is from the Middle English word nonnerie. See nun1, -ery

Examples for Nunnery

This good-looking girl they tell me is to go into a nunnery—by my Hostie!

When is she coming back to the monastery or the nunnery or rectory, or whatever it is?

We will start on our drive to the nunnery as early as you please, Chevalier.

The next day, at dawn, Albina received the Abbot of Antinoe at the nunnery.

On leaving the convent we proceeded to the nunnery in the neighbourhood.

Yes, the capricious, man-eating screen siren has, quite literally, gotten thee to a nunnery.

On the march we passed a nunnery, where we halted for about a quarter of an hour.

If the salt of the earth––but not to the nunnery nor to the monkery, we go.

At length he found her out, but what was his grief and surprise—in a nunnery!

If I had only known you had been coming, what a nunnery I would have lived in to have been good enough for you!'

Word Value for Nunnery
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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