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Gnome

//nəʊm// name, noun, slang

Proper Noun

1
An open-source, free software computer desktop environment for Unix operating systems.

Noun

1
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."
2
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 this second type of maxim noema. The gnome is more appropriate to the philosophers, and the noema to the orators, to the poets, and to the historians. To speak by gnomes alone was referred to by the Greeks as "philosophizing" which we Italians would render as "to mouth maxims" (sputar sentenze)."
3
a short pithy saying expressing a general truth wordnet
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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.; in modern fantasy literature and games, when distinguished from dwarves, gnomes are usually smaller than dwarves and more focused on engineering than mining.
"When the trees were disposed of, the gnomes vanished again."
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a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure wordnet

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A person of a small stature or misshapen features, or of a strange appearance. derogatory, informal
7
The mountain pygmy owl, Glaucidium gnoma, a small owl of the western United States.
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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[.]"
9
An upper atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a compact blue starter.
10
A banker, especially a secretive international one. derogatory, often
"the gnomes of Zurich"

Etymology 1

From French gnome (“gnome”), from New Latin gnomus, used by Paracelsus as a synonym for pygmaeus (“pygmy”).

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek γνώμη (gnṓmē, “thought, opinion”), from the base of γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “to know”).

Etymology 3

Originally an acronym for GNU Network Object Model Environment, but this meaning is now officially deprecated.

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