nunnery

See also: Nunnery

English[edit]

From Middle English nonnery, nonnerie, equivalent to nun +‎ -ery.

nunnery (plural nunneries)

(chiefly Christianity) The residence of a female religious community, a monastery for nuns.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
  Get thee to a nunnery, why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?
(humorous, slang, obsolete) Synonym of brothel.
- 1593, Thomas Nashe, Christs Teares ouer Ierusalem, page 79:
  [To] some one Gentleman generally acquainted, they giue... free priuiledge thenceforward in theyr Nunnery, to procure them frequentance...
- 1977, J.T. Shipley, In Praise of England, page 194:
  To the antipapist Tudors nunnery was a slang term for a brothel.

residence for nuns

Arabic: دَيْر (لِلرَّاهِبَات) m (dayr (li-r-rāhibāt)), رَهْبَنَة نِسْوِيّ f (rahbana niswiyy)
Bulgarian: мето́х (bg) m (metóh)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 女修道院 (zh) (nǔ xiūdàoyuàn), 庵堂 (zh) (āntáng) (generally Buddhist), 尼姑庵 (zh) (nígū'ān) (generally Buddhist)
Dutch: nonnenklooster (nl) n
Esperanto: monaĥinejo
Finnish: nunnaluostari (fi)
French: couvent (fr) m
Georgian: მონასტერი (monasṭeri)
German: Nonnenkloster (de) n
Greek: μονή (el) (moní)
Hungarian: apácakolostor (hu), zárda (hu)
Irish: clochar m
Italian: convento (it) m
Japanese: please add this translation if you can
Latin: coenobium n, monastērium n, conventus (la) m (4th declension)
Macedonian: же́нски ма́настир m (žénski mánastir)
Maori: whare none
Middle English: nonnerie
Old English: nunnhīrēd m, nunnmynster n, wīfhīrēd m
Polish: klasztor (pl) (żeński)
Portuguese: convento (pt) m
Romanian: mănăstire (de maici) f
Russian: же́нский монасты́рь m (žénskij monastýrʹ)
Spanish: convento (es) m
Swedish: nunnekloster (sv) n