[
US
/ˈnoʊm/
]
NOUN
- a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
- 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.