nomer
nomer noun: a denomination.
Noun
nomer (plural nomers)
- A denomination.
- Apparently, it was in the United States that the term “African” was first publicly used as nomer for the black population as a whole, without reference to any specific functional stratum, by members of that group itself.1979, Margaret E. Crahan, Franklin W. Knight, editors, Africa and the Caribbean, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 36
- Yet the worst aspect of this “bust” nomer, and why 13ers resent it, is how it plants today's 25-year-olds squarely where they don't want to be: in the shadow of the “boom[.]”1991, William Strauss, Neil Howe, Generations, Quill, →ISBN, page 324
Forms of nomer
| plural | nomers |
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Origin of nomer
Perhaps a back-formation from misnomer.
Questions about nomer
- What does nomer mean?
- Nomer means a denomination.
- What part of speech is nomer?
- Nomer is a noun.
- What is the plural of nomer?
- The plural of nomer is nomers.
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