nom
UK/nɒm//nɑm/
nom is the clipping of nomination.
nom is the clipping of nominator.
nom is the clipping of nominee.
nom is the clipping of nominate.
Meaning of nomination
Noun
nomination (countable and uncountable, plural nominations)
- An act or instance of nominating.
- Her nomination for the award came as a pleasant surprise.
- The result of such a nomination act.
- A device or means by which a person or thing is nominated.
Meaning of nominator
Noun
nominator (plural nominators)
- One who nominates, the enactor of a nomination.
Interjection
- Used to denote eating, or enjoyment of eating.
- [to a baby] You are so cute, I could just eat you right up! Nom nom nom.
Verb
nom (third-person singular simple present noms, present participle nomming, simple past and past participle nommed)
- To eat with noisy enjoyment.
Proper noun capitalized: NOM
NOM
- Initialism of National Organization for Marriage.
- National Organization for Marriage The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) was formed in 2007 with the intention of organizing and focusing the opposition to same-sex marriage in a single national voice.2014, Wallace Swan, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Civil Rights, page 65
- A number of groups have formed in recent years around the same-sex marriage issue. By 2010 two organizations had taken center stage at the national level. Founded in 2007, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization that lobbies and builds grass-roots...2018, Clyde Wilcox, Onward Christian Soldiers?: The Religious Right in American Politics
Forms of nom
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | noms |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | noms |
| present participle | nomming |
| past participle | nommed |
| past | nommed |
| Interjection | |
| alternative form | nomf |
Origin of nom
Short form of various words.
Onomatopoeic, variant of num, num-num. Attested 2004 as om nom, om nom nom, popularized from 2007 in internet use, second place in the American Dialect Society’s "Word of the Year" 2010. From the catchphrase of Cookie Monster on Sesame Street, as at the end of “C Is For Cookie” (1971), made when devouring cookies. However, as late as 2009, this was canonically written with a ‘u’, as in S is for School! (2006), as “num num”, or in the press kit for the 40th season (2009), as “un num num num num”; by 2013 this was changed to the now-popular nom.
Phrases with nom
Words that rhyme with nom
Questions about nom
- What does nom mean?
- Nom means used to denote eating, or enjoyment of eating.
- What is nom the clipping of?
- Nom is the clipping of nomination.
- What part of speech is nom?
- Nom can be an interjection, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce nom?
- Nom is pronounced /nɒm/ (UK).
Words near nom in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: nom (page history and authors); NOM (page history and authors); nomination (page history and authors); nominator (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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