Nome

Nome

 (nōm)

A city of western Alaska on Norton Sound and the southern coast of Seward Peninsula. It was founded as a gold-mining camp in 1898 and became a boomtown during the gold rush.

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nome

 (nōm)

n.

1. A province of Pharaonic, Hellenistic, and Roman Egypt.

2. A nomarchy.

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[Greek nomos, district, custom; see nem- in Indo-European roots.]

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nome

(nəʊm)

n

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) any of the former provinces of modern Greece; nomarchy

2. (Historical Terms) an administrative division of ancient Egypt

[C18: from Greek nomos pasture, region]

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Nome

(noʊm)

n.

1. a seaport in W Alaska. 2301.

2. Cape, a cape in W Alaska, on Seward Peninsula, W of Nome.

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Nome - 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 AK, Alaska, Last Frontier - a state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union; "Alaska is the largest state in the United States"

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