nome Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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

WordNet

Nome noun
Etymology
Gr. , fr. to deal out, distribute.
Definitions
  1. A province or political division, as of modern Greece or ancient Egypt; a nomarchy.
  2. Any melody determined by inviolable rules. Obs.
Nome noun
Etymology
Cf. Binomial.
Definitions
  1. (Alg.) Obs. See Term.
Nome, No"men obsolete past participle (Also<
  • Nome
  • Nomen
)
Definitions
  1. of Nim. Chaucer.

Webster 1913