nome

¹ American  

[nohm] / noʊm /

noun

1. one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.

2. nomarchy.

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Nome ² American  

[nohm] / noʊm /

noun

1. a seaport in W Alaska.

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

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nome British  

/ nəʊm /

noun

1. any of the former provinces of modern Greece; nomarchy

2. an administrative division of ancient Egypt

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Etymology

Origin of nome

1720–30; < Greek nomós a pasture, district, akin to némein to pasture

Example Sentences

The dogs seem to smell Nome now.

From Literature

The idea is that the musher will take a team and go from downtown Anchorage to downtown Nome, some eleven hundred plus miles across the Alaskan wilderness, over mountain ranges, up the Yukon River, out to the coast of the Bering Sea, and up along the coast and across parts of the sea ice to Nome.

From Literature

They have changed and know we are near the end and when we leave the last checkpoint but one and head out onto the beach—a forty-mile-long beach ending in Nome—they seem to have new purpose in their steps.

From Literature

As dark comes I can see the lights of the finish, of Nome, twenty or more miles ahead and when I realize what they are I stop the team.

From Literature

A man in Nome had brought her out on a small road in a jeep.

From Literature