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gnome

[ US /ˈnoʊm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
  2. a short pithy saying expressing a general truth

How To Use gnome In A Sentence

  • The cognomen Maro is in origin a magistrate's title used by Etruscans and Umbrians, but cognomina were a recent fashion in the first century B.C. and were selected by parents of the middle classes largely by accident. Vergil
  • The gnomes in the back room are putting the finishing touches to the new software.
  • The innkeeper, who was a choleric gnome of poor disposition, looked out of the door. STARDUST
  • Therefore _synesis_ extends to all matters of judgment, and consequently there is no other virtue of good judgment called _gnome. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
  • Ada was enjoying a particularly eclectic collection of garden gnomes when her phone rang.
  • I don't think garden gnomes are in very good taste.
  • Sometimes his collection of gnomes would be on display, and every anniversary was commemorated by faded buff photographs and artefacts.
  • I'm looking more and more like a garden gnome. Times, Sunday Times
  • Leprechauns are the Irish version of elves or gnomes.
  • With the cant of abolitionism well amplified, Missourians took up the cognomen of Southerners more widely, yet still largely as a defense of the peculiar institution.
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