Associations to the word «Nome»

Wiktionary

NOME, noun. A prefecture or unit of regional government in Greece.
NOME, noun. A territorial division of ancient Egypt.
NOME, noun. A type of musical composition in Ancient Greece.
NOME, noun. (obsolete) A term in algebra.
NOME, proper noun. Seaport in West Alaska
NOME, proper noun. Cape in West Alaska
NOME, proper noun. A river in Alaska

Dictionary definition

NOME, noun. 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.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats