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means A convent — a residence where nuns live together under religious vows, typically devoted to prayer, work, and communal life.

from Straightforward lineage: 'nun' traces back through Old English and Latin 'nonna,' originally a respectful term of address for an older woman (related to 'nonnus' for an older man) — a title of respect before it became a religious one. Add the Middle English suffix '-ery,' marking a place or institution (as in 'bakery' or 'brewery'), and you get 'nunnery' — literally, the place where the nonnas are. Worth noting: it carries a second, bawdier life in Elizabethan slang, where 'nunnery' was sometimes used ironically for a brothel — a sense famously loaded into Hamlet's bitter command to Ophelia, 'Get thee to a nunnery,' which plays on both meanings at once.