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Nome
city in Alaska, founded in the 1898 gold rush and originally Anvil City after the nearby Anvil Creek, it was later renamed for nearby Cape Nome, which, according to one story is from a misreading of a British cartographer's query, ?Name, written beside the peninsula on an 1849 map, and according to another is from a supposed native no-me meaning "I don't know," a plea of noncomprehension when asked what the name of the place was.
updated on July 06, 2019
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Dictionary entries near Nome
nolo contendere
nom
nomad
nomadic
no-man's-land
Nome
*no-men-
nomenclature
nomenklatura
nominal
nominalism