Nun vs. Priest — What's the Difference?

The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities.

A nun is a member of a religious community of women, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery. Communities of nuns exist in numerous religious traditions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Jainism, and Taoism.

An ordained minister of the Catholic, Orthodox, or Anglican Church, authorized to perform certain rites and administer certain sacraments

A member of a religious community of women, typically one living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

A mallet used to kill fish caught when angling.

Any of a number of birds whose plumage resembles a nun's habit, especially an Asian mannikin.

Ordain to the priesthood

A woman who belongs to a religious order or congregation devoted to active service or meditation, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

In many Christian churches, a member of the second grade of clergy ranking below a bishop but above a deacon and having authority to administer the sacraments.

The 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. See Table at alphabet.

A person having the authority to perform and administer religious rites.

A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, those living together in a cloister.

To ordain or admit to the priesthood.

(by extension) A member of a similar female community in other confessions.

A religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple

A prostitute.

A blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish

A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.

(Mormonism) the highest office in the Aaronic priesthood

A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

(transitive) To ordain as a priest.

A white variety of domestic pigeons having a veil of feathers covering the head.

A presbyter elder; a minister

The 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding in pronunciation to n.

One who officiates at the altar, or performs the rites of sacrifice; one who acts as a mediator between men and the divinity or the gods in any form of religion; as, Buddhist priests.

The 25th letter of the Arabic alphabet, corresponding in pronunciation to n.

To ordain as priest.

A woman religious

A clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders

A buoy resembling a cone

A spiritual leader in a non-Christian religion

The 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet