Words from religious women conveying love (5)
I believe the answer is:
nouns
'words' is the definition.
(noun is a kind of word)
'religious women conveying love' is the wordplay.
'religious women' becomes 'nuns'.
'conveying' indicates putting letters inside.
'love' becomes 'o' (In tennis, 'love' means 'zero').
'nuns' placed around 'o' is 'NOUNS'.
'from' is the link.
(Other definitions for nouns that I've seen before include "They can be used to refer to persons, places or things" , "Substantives" , "Naming words" , "Words of particular type" , "Words that can be the subject or object of a verb" .)