nomer

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noun

A denomination.

Scrabble 7

Meanings

nounnomer (plural nomers)

plural nomers

  1. rareA denomination.

    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
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    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

Origin

Perhaps a back-formation from misnomer.

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APA

nomer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nomer

MLA

“nomer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nomer. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nomer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nomer.

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