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  • noun Plural form of nome.

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Examples

  • So to the homeowner whose three garden "nomes" - as a police officer labelled them - took a walk last spring, the good news is they're safe.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Carola Vyhnak 2010

  • So to the homeowner whose three garden "nomes" - as a police officer labelled them - took a walk last spring, the good news is they're safe.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Carola Vyhnak 2010

  • If this sense is approved, the fact that Egypt was divided into provinces, afterwards called nomes, may probably hence have received its origin.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • The nomes are a numerous and mischievous people, living in underground caverns of wide extent, connected one with another by arches and passages.

    Rinkitink in Oz Baum, L. Frank 1916

  • The nomes are a numerous and mischievous people, living in underground caverns of wide extent, connected one with another by arches and passages.

    Rinkitink in Oz 1887

  • The nomes are a numerous and mischievous people, living in underground caverns of wide extent, connected one with another by arches and passages.

    Rinkitink in Oz 1887

  • Truckers is the book in question, the first part of Terry's Bromeliad Trilogy, his children's books about small people called nomes trying to survive in the much larger human world.

    Daily entertainment news, celebrity gossip, movie reviews, music and sport. 2008

  • "The nomes are our friends, and they possess magic powers that will enable them to protect the prisoners from discovery.

    Rinkitink in Oz Baum, L. Frank 1916

  • "The nomes are our friends, and they possess magic powers that will enable them to protect the prisoners from discovery.

    Rinkitink in Oz 1887

  • "The nomes are our friends, and they possess magic powers that will enable them to protect the prisoners from discovery.

    Rinkitink in Oz 1887

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