Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A promontory or headland: as, the naze of Norway.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A promontory or headland.
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- noun A
promontory orheadland . Seeness - noun A
cape at the southern tip ofNorway (also known as The Lindesnes)
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- noun a cape at the southern tip of Norway
Etymologies
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Examples
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The company's dictum holds that workers have to ask why ( "naze" in Japanese) at least five times to get to the bottom of a problem.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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The company's dictum holds that workers have to ask why ( "naze" in Japanese) at least five times to get to the bottom of a problem.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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Gets them even more in political donations for their neo-naze campaigns.
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The other one was a Spoonerism that I committed not once, but twice, “his naze garrowed.”
The garrowing naze maryrobinette 2010
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The young man, whose name was Andreas, revealed to Sofia that the house of his dreams stood out on a naze.
Archive 2009-06-01 Eric Dickens 2009
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And if I were a green-clad poet, in corduroy with hood, with intrusive woodcocks, what a blessed piece of luck, you would walk as if on a naze, a spit, a tongue of land along the light word-swell of small lakes, like a mere ripple
Archive 2009-04-01 Eric Dickens 2009
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Then the battle-brave atheling sat on the naze-edge,
Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Lesslie [Translator] Hall
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From the naze of the cliff, but rode on to meet them;
Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Lesslie [Translator] Hall
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On a naze to the north of Hind Island in Sengen lies Trondenæs church and parsonage.
The Visionary Pictures From Nordland Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie 1870
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The boat now flew with the speed of an arrow past naze, island and rock, till Elias thought he had never been for such a splendid sail before, and the boat now showed herself to be, as she really was, the first boat in Ranen.
The Visionary Pictures From Nordland Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie 1870
ruzuzu commented on the word naze
Not what I was expecting.
March 30, 2012