gnomes
Meaning of gnomes
plural noun
a legendary dwarfish creature supposed to guard the earth's treasures underground.
mid 17th century: from French, from modern Latin gnomus, a word used by Paracelsus as a synonym of Pygmaeus, denoting a mythical race of very small people said to inhabit parts of Ethiopia and India (compare with pygmy).
plural noun
a short statement encapsulating a general truth; a maxim.
late 16th century: from Greek gnōmē ‘thought, opinion’ (related to gignōskein ‘know’).
Information about gnomes
- It is a name.
- The singular form of gnomes is: gnome.
- Languages in which gnomes is used:
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Hyphenation of gnomes
gnomes
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- gnomes is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Anagrams of gnomes
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