nome

Noun

nome (plural nomes)

1. a territorial division of ancient Egypt

   • 1983: Yet the part will be as the whole, and you will be the High Priest in this nome of Egypt. — Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings

2. a type of musical composition in ancient Greece

4 letters in word "nome": E M N O.

Anagrams of nome:

• meno

• omen

Words found within nome:

em en eon me men mo moe mon ne no nom oe om on one

• Definitions:
• A province of ancient Egypt - there were 42 nomes.
• From the Greek, nomos; this is an administrative province of Egypt. The nome system started in the Early Dynastic Period. During some periods, when there was a highly centralized government the nomes had little political importance.
• "no ma'am"
• One of the forty-two administrative and religious districts into which Egypt was divided, twenty-two in Upper Egypt, twenty in Lower Egypt. Busurite and Double Scepter. (Egy.)
• A geographic province incorporated within the ancient Egyptian state.
• 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
• A nome (from ?????, “district”) is a subnational administrative division of Ancient Egypt. The use of the Greek name rather than the Egyptians' own results partly from Egypt's long Greek occupation. ...
• In mathematics, specifically the theory of elliptic functions, the nome is a special function and is given by

• nombrils ←
• nombril ←
• nombles ←
• nome
• → nomen
• → nomenclative
• → nomenclator