Meanings
plural nomers
- 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 3241 more example
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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Cite this entry
nomer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nomer
“nomer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nomer. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nomer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nomer.
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