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noun nəʊmnoʊm 1A legendary dwarfish creature supposed to guard the earth's treasures underground. 地下宝藏守护神，土地神（传说中人物，个子矮小） Example sentencesExamples - A catlike purple creature startled the gnome into standing up.
- Elves and men and gnomes and goblins alike looked about in fear and confusion.
- You do not have to discourse with fairies or elves, gnomes or trolls.
- The bodies of the goblins and gnomes were left as they were.
- Leprechauns are the Irish version of elves or gnomes.
- The book is based on the story of a crafty 12-year-old Irish boy who is immersed in a world of fairies, leprechauns and gnomes.
- Behind these were many ranks of pixies, gnomes and nymphs, and in the rear a thousand beautiful fairies floated along in gorgeous array.
- Seated around the smaller tables were an assortment of fairies, gnomes, centaurs, unicorns, elves, goat men, dragons, and a number of creatures she'd never seen before.
- They say the elves have been tracking something in the Wood, and it ain't gnomes or goblins.
- But this was not a glad sight, for the roads and paths showed that they were well-travelled, and recently, by goblins and gnomes.
- When I was very small, I would look for fairies and gnomes in our yard.
- Again, what is the inspiration behind characters such as fairies, elves, gnomes, and witches?
- The small nocturnal visitors of the middle Ages were known as fairies, leprechauns, elves, or gnomes - the little people.
- The mean dwellings of gnomes and goblins came into view, as well as armed camps dotted with small fires.
- And, if Santa is as jolly and big-hearted as his public relations advisers have us believe, he should be fairly generous when it comes to dishing out the dosh to his helpers: elves, fairies, gnomes and so on.
- More than once they came across the bleached bones and disintegrated rags of gnomes, goblins, and other dead marauders.
- Before our modern era most people who had encounters knew that what they were dealing with were daemons, dragons, gnomes, fairies and trolls.
- Powder coated fir trees line the loops conjuring images of snow monsters and giant gnomes.
- The gnomes and goblins were milling about, obviously not responding to orders, and desperately looking for ways to escape.
- Wizards, fairies, elves, trolls and gnomes everywhere fell as the magical bird made its final pass over the land, taking with it the power it had once possessed.
Synonyms sprite, pixie, elf, imp, brownie, puck - 1.1 A small garden ornament in the form of a bearded man with a pointed hat.
（装点花园的）侏儒雕像（为一长着胡须，戴着尖帽的男子形象） Example sentencesExamples - Danny had to jump out of the way of one car that spun out of the road and into someone's garden, knocking over a gnome and squashing a frog emerging from a pond.
- Who originally came up with the idea of kidnapping garden gnomes and sending the owner photos of the gnome in front of tourist sites around the globe?
- A person or persons unknown stole a gnome from our front garden.
- I'd never heard of a pisky before, but it turns out it's a small pottery gnome with hair like dried noodles.
- Grinning I realised it was the figure who was so attracted to the gardener's gnomes.
- One of the highlights was when I stole Robin the gnome from one of the officer's gardens and I was locked up for two days with just bread and water.
- The Front rescues gnomes from garden centres where they are insensitively placed among bottles of toxic garden chemicals.
- Activities on the day will include Seek The Gnome (a chance to hunt pictures of gnomes in the gardens), dressing a giant gnome, gnome games, and gnome Punch and Judy.
- As one commentator says, such local assaults are ‘akin to a man knocking down a gnome in his own garden’.
- A York gardener was caught red-handed with a hoard of stolen statues, gnomes and ornaments, magistrates heard.
- A 40-year-old gnome which was stolen from a garden home has been returned.
- We are walking up a woodland path and pause to look at a group of fly agarics; the red-and-white spotted ones popular with fishing gnomes in the gardens of suburbia.
- He once said it to a gnome in the centre of a circular garden.
- Besides, this incredibly skilled team could win with a garden gnome in net.
- I absolutely detest gnomes and the majority of people living in the big houses would not want gnomes in their gardens either.
- If you have ever fancied a pot policeman gnome for the front garden or a pair of matching T-shirts with the words Head Gardener and Head Gardener's Assistant on the front, this is the place to come.
- The most exotic species of native wildlife that I expect to see in my garden is a plastic gnome.
- An oversized gnome, he looms over garden ponds, stares wistfully up at bedroom windows.
- Ada was enjoying a particularly eclectic collection of garden gnomes when her phone rang.
- Three youngsters have condemned the thieves who keep stealing the gnomes from their garden.
- 1.2informal A small ugly person.
〈非正式〉矮小丑陋的人 a grizzled gnome of a man Example sentencesExamples - Are you now saying that referring to members as gnomes is ruled out?
Synonyms small person, short person, person of restricted growth - 1.3informal A person regarded as having secret or sinister influence in financial matters.
〈非正式〉（尤指在金融事务中）被认为有隐秘（或不好）影响的人 苏黎世那帮金融大鳄。 Example sentencesExamples - The gnomes of Zurich chugged in at seventh while Milan notched up a distant 11 th place on the Jones Lang LaSalle index.
- It is said that even the bankers, known as the gnomes of Zurich because of the mounds of gold stored in underground vaults, have to relax.
Derivativesadjective ˈnəʊmɪʃˈnoʊmɪʃ No boats emerged from the Milby Cut, but there were at intervals gnomish fishermen snuggled into the banks. Example sentencesExamples - Heisenberg, red-haired, balding, gnomish, looking older than his years, paces in front of a blackboard as he speaks.
- He has an almost gnomish manner, an unkempt beard that he scratches at absent-mindedly and a tumble of curly black hair that bobs as he talks.
- These days the director of the Edinburgh International Festival is a dapper figure with three distinguishing features: shiny pate, gnomish beard, sober suit.
- We discussed designing a robot avatar for the new world, but we were quickly divided about whether the robot should be modelled after a high elf wizard or a gnomish rogue.
OriginMid 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). You would not really confuse a gnome with a pygmy, but the terms are closely related. It was probably the Swiss physician Paracelsus (c.1493–1541) who coined gnome as a synonym of Pygmaeus, the name given to a member of a mythical race of very small people believed to live in parts of Ethiopia and India. The gnomes of Zurich are Swiss financiers or bankers, thought of as having a sinister influence over international monetary funds. Former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson popularized the phrase in 1956: ‘All these financiers, all the little gnomes in Zurich and other financial centres about whom we keep on hearing’. Gnomic (early 19th century) meaning ‘clever but hard to understand’, as in ‘gnomic utterances’, is a different word. It comes from Greek gnōmē ‘thought, judgement’, which was related to gignōskein ‘to know’. See also naff
Rhymesbrome, chrome, comb, Crome, dome, foam, holm, Holme, hom, home, Jerome, loam, Nome, ohm, om, roam, Rome, tome noun ˈnəʊminoʊm A short statement encapsulating a general truth; a maxim. 格言，箴言 Synonyms maxim, saying, proverb, aphorism, adage, saw, axiom, formula, expression, phrase, rule, dictum, precept, epigram
OriginLate 16th century: from Greek gnōmē 'thought, opinion' (related to gignōskein 'know'). nounnōmnoʊm 1A legendary dwarfish creature supposed to guard the earth's treasures underground. 地下宝藏守护神，土地神（传说中人物，个子矮小） Example sentencesExamples - Powder coated fir trees line the loops conjuring images of snow monsters and giant gnomes.
- Behind these were many ranks of pixies, gnomes and nymphs, and in the rear a thousand beautiful fairies floated along in gorgeous array.
- And, if Santa is as jolly and big-hearted as his public relations advisers have us believe, he should be fairly generous when it comes to dishing out the dosh to his helpers: elves, fairies, gnomes and so on.
- The book is based on the story of a crafty 12-year-old Irish boy who is immersed in a world of fairies, leprechauns and gnomes.
- The small nocturnal visitors of the middle Ages were known as fairies, leprechauns, elves, or gnomes - the little people.
- Before our modern era most people who had encounters knew that what they were dealing with were daemons, dragons, gnomes, fairies and trolls.
- Elves and men and gnomes and goblins alike looked about in fear and confusion.
- Seated around the smaller tables were an assortment of fairies, gnomes, centaurs, unicorns, elves, goat men, dragons, and a number of creatures she'd never seen before.
- When I was very small, I would look for fairies and gnomes in our yard.
- Wizards, fairies, elves, trolls and gnomes everywhere fell as the magical bird made its final pass over the land, taking with it the power it had once possessed.
- But this was not a glad sight, for the roads and paths showed that they were well-travelled, and recently, by goblins and gnomes.
- The mean dwellings of gnomes and goblins came into view, as well as armed camps dotted with small fires.
- Leprechauns are the Irish version of elves or gnomes.
- Again, what is the inspiration behind characters such as fairies, elves, gnomes, and witches?
- More than once they came across the bleached bones and disintegrated rags of gnomes, goblins, and other dead marauders.
- They say the elves have been tracking something in the Wood, and it ain't gnomes or goblins.
- The gnomes and goblins were milling about, obviously not responding to orders, and desperately looking for ways to escape.
- The bodies of the goblins and gnomes were left as they were.
- A catlike purple creature startled the gnome into standing up.
- You do not have to discourse with fairies or elves, gnomes or trolls.
Synonyms sprite, pixie, elf, imp, brownie, puck - 1.1 A small garden ornament in the form of a bearded man with a pointed hat.
（装点花园的）侏儒雕像（为一长着胡须，戴着尖帽的男子形象） Example sentencesExamples - An oversized gnome, he looms over garden ponds, stares wistfully up at bedroom windows.
- The most exotic species of native wildlife that I expect to see in my garden is a plastic gnome.
- I absolutely detest gnomes and the majority of people living in the big houses would not want gnomes in their gardens either.
- Ada was enjoying a particularly eclectic collection of garden gnomes when her phone rang.
- Besides, this incredibly skilled team could win with a garden gnome in net.
- A person or persons unknown stole a gnome from our front garden.
- As one commentator says, such local assaults are ‘akin to a man knocking down a gnome in his own garden’.
- He once said it to a gnome in the centre of a circular garden.
- Who originally came up with the idea of kidnapping garden gnomes and sending the owner photos of the gnome in front of tourist sites around the globe?
- One of the highlights was when I stole Robin the gnome from one of the officer's gardens and I was locked up for two days with just bread and water.
- I'd never heard of a pisky before, but it turns out it's a small pottery gnome with hair like dried noodles.
- Grinning I realised it was the figure who was so attracted to the gardener's gnomes.
- We are walking up a woodland path and pause to look at a group of fly agarics; the red-and-white spotted ones popular with fishing gnomes in the gardens of suburbia.
- If you have ever fancied a pot policeman gnome for the front garden or a pair of matching T-shirts with the words Head Gardener and Head Gardener's Assistant on the front, this is the place to come.
- Activities on the day will include Seek The Gnome (a chance to hunt pictures of gnomes in the gardens), dressing a giant gnome, gnome games, and gnome Punch and Judy.
- Danny had to jump out of the way of one car that spun out of the road and into someone's garden, knocking over a gnome and squashing a frog emerging from a pond.
- A York gardener was caught red-handed with a hoard of stolen statues, gnomes and ornaments, magistrates heard.
- Three youngsters have condemned the thieves who keep stealing the gnomes from their garden.
- A 40-year-old gnome which was stolen from a garden home has been returned.
- The Front rescues gnomes from garden centres where they are insensitively placed among bottles of toxic garden chemicals.
- 1.2informal A small ugly person.
〈非正式〉矮小丑陋的人 Example sentencesExamples - Are you now saying that referring to members as gnomes is ruled out?
Synonyms small person, short person, person of restricted growth - 1.3informal A person regarded as having secret or sinister influence in financial matters.
〈非正式〉（尤指在金融事务中）被认为有隐秘（或不好）影响的人 苏黎世那帮金融大鳄。 Example sentencesExamples - The gnomes of Zurich chugged in at seventh while Milan notched up a distant 11 th place on the Jones Lang LaSalle index.
- It is said that even the bankers, known as the gnomes of Zurich because of the mounds of gold stored in underground vaults, have to relax.
OriginMid 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). nounnōmnoʊm A short statement encapsulating a general truth; a maxim. 格言，箴言 Synonyms maxim, saying, proverb, aphorism, adage, saw, axiom, formula, expression, phrase, rule, dictum, precept, epigram
OriginLate 16th century: from Greek gnōmē ‘thought, opinion’ (related to gignōskein ‘know’). |