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 

• NOME (noun)

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)