Noun: gnome nowm
- A legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
"The garden was decorated with colourful gnome statues";
- dwarf
- A short pithy saying expressing a general truth
"Time is money" is a popular gnome in business"
Sounds like: nix, nicks, Nyx, NICs
Derived forms: gnomes
Type of: axiom, faerie, faery, fairy, fay [archaic], maxim, sprite
Encyclopedia: Gnome