nome
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 4
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Definition of nome
14 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A prefecture or unit of regional government in Greece.
“Laconia is the southernmost nome in the Peloponnese.”
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noun
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A prefecture or unit of regional government in Greece.
“Laconia is the southernmost nome in the Peloponnese.”
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A territorial division of ancient Egypt.
“Yet the part will be as the whole, and you will be the High Priest in this nome of Egypt.”
- A type of musical composition in Ancient Greece.
- (obsolete)A term in an algebraic expression.
- A special function with which elliptic functions and modular forms can be described.
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(US, alt-of, alternative, regional)Alternative form of no'm (“no ma'am”).
“Mother said, “Is he cold, Versh.” “Nome.” Versh said.”
name
- A place in the United States:
- A place in the United States:
- A place in the United States:
- A place in the United States:
- A place in the United States:
- A place in the United States:
- A municipality in Telemark county, Norway, with its headquarters in Ulefoss.
- A rural locality in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From French nome, from Ancient Greek νομός (nomós, “district”), from νέμω (némō, “to divide”). Doublet of nomos.
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