nome
noun
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
nome
1 American
[nohm]
/ noʊm /
Nome
2
American
[nohm]
/ noʊm /
noun
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a seaport in W Alaska.
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Cape, a cape in W Alaska, on Seward Peninsula, W of Nome.
nome
British
/ nəʊm /
noun
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any of the former provinces of modern Greece; nomarchy
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an administrative division of ancient Egypt
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of nome
1720–30; < Greek nomós a pasture, district, akin to némein to pasture
Example Sentences
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She smiled and held up hers: ‘Il nome della rosa.’
From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2022
Yerson would only identify himself by his nome de guerre.
From Reuters ● Apr. 26, 2018
Soon came the Caro nome aria and Lily Pons stopped the show.
From Time Magazine Archive
The great aria, caro nome, came, prodigious in its demands upon the strength, purity and agility of the upper soprano voice.
From Time Magazine Archive
We find evidence for similar bitterness in the archive of the Greek magistrate Diophanes, who presided over the Arsinoite nome in middle Egypt toward the end of Eratosthenes’ lifetime in the late third century.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
Unakleet and Nome are about 150 miles from each other across Norton Sound, an inlet of the Bering Sea on Alaska's western coast.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025
The Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft, operated by regional operator Bering Air, was travelling from Unalakleet to Nome on Thursday when it lost radar contact.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025
I was, while writing, listening to the local stations of Nome, Kotzebue, Utqiagvik, which is Barrow, and watching a fabulous show that I discovered called “Alaska Troopers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
“And when they got close enough to the seal, they would grab their harpoon and get the seal,” said Johnson, an Inupiaq originally from Nome.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2024
It was the mail plane from Anchorage on its way to Nome.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
No attempt in the direction of a system of gods had any success; local deities could not be suppressed; the nomes retained their separate deities and religious establishments to the end.
From History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Allan Menzies
Forty-four nomes, twenty-two for Upper Egypt and as many for Lower Egypt, can be established, together with their names.—Brugsch,
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker
Forty-two was the number of divine assessors at the judgment of the dead before Osiris, and was the standard number of the nomes or counties in Egypt.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
When the kingdoms became, first, vassal principalities under a paramount lord, and then nomes, the old tradition was still maintained.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
In the sacred axe, therefore, which denoted a god, we may see a parallel to the standards on the prow of the prehistoric boat or to the symbols of the nomes.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
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