gnome : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: gnome	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for gnome
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gnome n a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure Synonym(s): gnome, dwarf a short pithy saying expressing a general truth
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gnome \Gnome\, n. [F. gnome, prob. fr. Gr. gnw`mon one that knows, a guardian, i. e., of the treasures in the inner parts of the earth, or fr. [?] intelligence, both fr. gnw^nai, gignw^skein, to know. See {Know}.] 1. An imaginary being, supposed by the Rosicrucians to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries, etc. 2. A dwarf; a goblin; a person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance. 3. (Zo[94]l.) A small owl ({Glaucidium gnoma}) of the Western United States. 4. [Gr. [?].] A brief reflection or maxim. --Peacham.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
GNOME {GNU Network Object Model Environment}