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# nunnery

«nunnery» in Mova's school dictionary: **A building where nuns live together, away from the world…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (nunneries)

### meaning for a pupil

A building where nuns live together, away from the world, to pray and work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nunnery/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, the place where holy women live and pray

### examples

- The nuns lived quietly in the nunnery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nunnery/#x1)
- A nunnery stood beside the old temple. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nunnery/#x2)
- Some girls went to the nunnery to learn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nunnery/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nunnery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nunnery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.