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NOME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Nome mean?
• NOME (noun)
The noun NOME has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: NOME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Nome" is a part of...):
AK; Alaska; Last Frontier (a state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union)
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