Nun vs Dun - What's the difference?

nun | dun |

As nouns the difference between nun and dun

is that nun is a member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, in some cases living together in a cloister while dun is a brownish grey colour.

As a proper noun Nun

is a given name derived from Hebrew.

As an adjective dun is

of a brownish grey colour.

As a verb dun is

to ask or beset a debtor for payment.

As a contraction dun is

eye dialect of don't|lang=en.

As an interjection dun is

Imitating suspenseful music.

nun
English

Etymology 1
From ) a term of address for elderly persons, perhaps from children's speech, reminiscent of nana, like papa etc.
Noun
(en noun)
A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, in some cases living together in a cloister.

By extension, member of a similar female community in other confessions.

Synonyms
* sister, moniale, sistren
Antonyms
* (member of a religious community of men) * brother * friar * monk * friar and frater or father
Derived terms
* nunhood * nunlike, nun-like * nunnery
Related terms
* nonnus
Etymology 2
Ultimately from (etyl) .
Alternative forms
* noon *
Noun
(en noun)
The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

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dun
English
(wikipedia dun)
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dun, dunne, from (etyl) . Alternative etymology derives the Old English word from Late Brythonic (compare Old Welsh dwnn 'dark (red)'), from (etyl) (compare Old Saxon dosan 'chestnut brown'). More at dusk.
Noun

(uncountable) A brownish grey colour.

Adjective
(-)
Of a brownish grey colour.

* Pierpont

Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up.

* Keble

Chill and dun / Falls on the moor the brief November day.

Derived terms
* dun-bar
See also
* bawn * durmast oak *
Etymology 2
; perhaps a variant of din.
Noun
(en noun)
(countable) A collector of debts.

* Arbuthnot

to be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun

* 1933 , (George Orwell), Down and Out in Paris and London , Ch. 18:

Melancholy duns came looking for him at all hours.

* 1970 , (John Glassco), Memoirs of Montparnasse , New York 2007, p. 102:

‘Frank's worried about duns ,’ she said as the butler went away.

An urgent request or demand of payment.

He sent his debtor a dun .

Verb
(dunn)
To ask or beset a debtor for payment.

* Jonathan Swift

Hath she sent so soon to dun ?

* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 577:

Of all he had received from Lady Bellaston, not above five guineas remained and that very morning he had been dunned by a tradesman for twice that sum.

* 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 107:

Rich bitches who had to be dunned for their milk bills would pay him right now.

To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.

Derived terms
* dun letter
Etymology 3

Noun
(en noun)
A valley in the Himalayan foothills, e.g. Dehra Dun.

Etymology 4

Noun
(en noun)
(countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly.

Etymology 5
See done.
Verb
(head)
(informal) : (do)

He dun''' it before and he '''dun it again.

Now, ya dun it!

Etymology 6
See .
Contraction
(en-cont)

Etymology 7

Verb
(dunn)
To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.

Etymology 8
See dune.
Noun
(en noun)
A mound or small hill.

Etymology 9
Imitative.
Interjection
(en interjection)
(humorous)

* Carrie Tucker, I Love Geeks

Has he allowed the power and the repercussions of the Death Note to influence his entire life? How would you deal with that power? (Dun, dun, DUN! Insert dramatic music here.)
(Webster 1913)
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