NUNNERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nunnery mean? 

• NUNNERY (noun)
  The noun NUNNERY has 1 sense:

1. the convent of a community of nuns

  Familiarity information: NUNNERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NUNNERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The convent of a community of nuns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("nunnery" is a kind of...):

convent (a religious residence especially for nuns)

 Context examples 

At Lyndenhurst; but alas! my money is at an end, and I could but get a dish of bran-porridge from the nunnery.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I shall take up my abode in a religious house near Lisle—a nunnery you would call it; there I shall be quiet and unmolested.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He can't get into mischief in that little nunnery over there, and Mrs. March is doing more for him than we can.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She is a young damsel of these parts, and she goes now into a nunnery.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In America, as everyone knows, girls early sign the declaration of independence, and enjoy their freedom with republican zest, but the young matrons usually abdicate with the first heir to the throne and go into a seclusion almost as close as a French nunnery, though by no means as quiet.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“See the tower of the old gray church, and the long stretch of the nunnery. But here sits a very holy man, and I shall give him a crown for his prayers.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Maude! And in a nunnery!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hence was it that the good burghers of Romsey were all in the streets, that gay flags and flowers brightened the path from the nunnery to the church, and that a long procession wound up to the old arched door leading up the bride to these spiritual nuptials.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Great had been the rejoicing amid the Romsey nuns when the Lady Maude Loring had craved admission into their order—for was she not sole child and heiress of the old knight, with farms and fiefs which she could bring to the great nunnery?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)