Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hero celebrated as an elderly and wise counselor to the Greeks at Troy.
- noun A venerable and wise old man.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The oldest and wisest (because most experienced) man of a class or company: in allusion to Nestor in Greek legend.
- noun A counselor; an adviser.
- noun In ornithology, a genus of parrots having a remarkably long beak: named from the gray head.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun (Zoöl.) A genus of parrots with gray heads, of New Zealand and Papua, allied to the cockatoos. See
kaka .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Strigopidae — thekea andkaka . - proper noun Greek mythology An old and wise king in
Homer 'sIliad . - proper noun A male
given name , rare in English. - proper noun An old counselor
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a genus of Psittacidae
- noun (Greek mythology) a wise old counselor to the Greeks at Troy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The name Nestor was embroidered onto the pocket of his sweat-stained shirt.
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The name Nestor was embroidered onto the pocket of his sweat-stained shirt.
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However, the federation secretary general, Decio De María, threatening rebels with further sanctions, said: "Nestor is the director and his head is not on the table as a condition for talks."
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He deals with most of them, but the leader, Nestor is not dead and follows him into the city, meeting him in the treasure room after he deals with a giant slug.
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He deals with most of them, but the leader, Nestor is not dead and follows him into the city, meeting him in the treasure room after he deals with a giant slug.
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He deals with most of them, but the leader, Nestor is not dead and follows him into the city, meeting him in the treasure room after he deals with a giant slug.
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He deals with most of them, but the leader, Nestor is not dead and follows him into the city, meeting him in the treasure room after he deals with a giant slug.
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He deals with most of them, but the leader, Nestor is not dead and follows him into the city, meeting him in the treasure room after he deals with a giant slug.
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He deals with most of them, but the leader, Nestor is not dead and follows him into the city, meeting him in the treasure room after he deals with a giant slug.
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He deals with most of them, but the leader, Nestor is not dead and follows him into the city, meeting him in the treasure room after he deals with a giant slug.
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