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Meaning of NOME

Pronunciation:  nowm

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  a town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula; an important center of an Alaskan gold rush at the beginning of the 20th century
 
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 See Also: AK, Alaska, Last Frontier, town

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Nome\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to deal out, distribute.]
    1. A province or political division, as of modern Greece or
       ancient Egypt; a nomarchy.
    2. Any melody determined by inviolable rules. [Obs.]
    
  2. \Nome\, n. [Cf. {Binomial}.] (Alg.) [Obs.]
    See {Term}.
    
  3. \Nome\, Nomen \No"men\, obs.
    p. p. of {Nim}. --Chaucer.
    
 

 

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