/nəʊm/, /noʊm/
OriginFrom French gnome (“gnome”), from New Latin gnomus, used by Paracelsus as a synonym for pygmaeus (“pygmy”).
- An elemental (spirit or corporeal creature associated with a classical element) associated with earth.
“He adopts the Rosycrusian fancy of Gnomes, spirits which inhabit the earth, and who by their power form the ores of metals, and all the wonders met with in the inmost recesses of the globe.”
“Day belongs to the earthlier deities—the stern, the harsh, and the cold. Gnomes are the spirits of daily hours. Toil, thought, and strife, beset us: we have to work, to quarrel, and to struggle: we ha”
“Gnomes are perhaps the most useful of the elementals.
A gnome can carry a person with it as it swims through the soil, provided it is strong enough to lift the person. The gnome cannot, however, provi”
- One of a race of imaginary human-like beings, usually depicted as short and typically bearded males, who inhabit the inner parts of the earth and act as guardians of mines, mineral treasure, etc.
“When the trees were disposed of, the gnomes vanished again.”
“There were not one but four gnomes standing at his feet. “I nearly trod on you,” Daniel said. “What are you doing here?”
The gnomes just stood, looking up at him.”
- The mountain pygmy owl, Glaucidium gnoma, a small owl of the western United States.
- A small statue of a dwarf-like character, often bearded, placed in a garden.
“There were ornamental ponds and shrubs clipped into animal shapes, painted concrete gnomes sitting on mushrooms, pink flamingos standing on one leg[.]”
“Gnomes, more than any other garden feature, divide the gardening world. Once welcomed in the hallowed halls of the International Horticultural Exhibition at Chelsea, this year a lonesome gnome had the”
“My mother-in-law, who swears she is a good Lutheran but is also the most powerful Witch I have ever met, also has at least a dozen small lawn gnomes peeking out from beside her shrubs, next to the lil”
- An upper atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a compact blue starter.
- A brief reflection or maxim; a pithy saying.
“1996, Giambattista Vico, Giorgio A. Pinton, Arthur W. Shippee (translators), The Art of Rhetoric, [1711-1741, Giambattista Vico, Institutiones Oratoriae], page 125,
The Greeks in their tongue call thi”
“Thus, the gnome concerning the precarious nature of, and the potential suffering in, human life sent by the gods uttered by Electra is deconstructed by her choice of paradigm. By using Tantalos as an ”
- An open-source, free software computer desktop environment for Unix operating systems.
Formsgnomes(plural) · gnomae(plural) · gnomai(plural)