gnome
has definitions from the field of folklore
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[ noun ] (folklore) a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
Synonyms Used in print (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)I would not want to be one of those writers who begin each morning by exclaiming , `` O Gogol , O Chekhov , O Thackeray and Dickens , what would you have made_of a bomb_shelter ornamented with four plaster-of-Paris ducks , a birdbath , and three composition gnomes with long beards and red mobcaps '' ? |
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[ noun ] a short pithy saying expressing a general truth
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