English words starting with gn - page 1

Meanings of Gnome:

noun

A legendary dwarfish creature supposed to guard the earth's treasures underground.

Usage examples:

Elves and men and gnomes and goblins alike looked about in fear and confusion.

Meanings of Gnomes:

noun

A legendary dwarfish creature supposed to guard the earth's treasures underground.

Usage examples:

Elves and men and gnomes and goblins alike looked about in fear and confusion.

Meanings of Gnomic:

adjective

Expressed in or of the nature of short, pithy maxims or aphorisms.

Usage examples:

That most gnomic form, the aphorism

Meanings of Gnomon:

noun

The projecting piece on a sundial that shows the time by the position of its shadow.

Usage examples:

The problem is that the gardeners have been caught on the gnomon of their own sundial.

Meanings of Gnomons:

noun

The projecting piece on a sundial that shows the time by the position of its shadow.

Usage examples:

The problem is that the gardeners have been caught on the gnomon of their own sundial.

Meanings of Gnosis:

noun

Knowledge of spiritual mysteries.

Usage examples:

This is a gross oversimplification, i think, but it lays the groundwork for potential gnosis throug…

Meanings of Gnostic:

adjective

Relating to knowledge, especially esoteric mystical knowledge.

Usage examples:

For some pavements such a religious symbolism has been suggested: examples at brading and littlecot…

noun

An adherent of gnosticism.

Usage examples:

The distortions of the marcionites, gnostics, and montanists were carefully examined under the crit…

Meanings of Gnosticism:

noun

A prominent heretical movement of the 2nd-century christian church, partly of pre-christian origin. gnostic doctrine taught that the world was created and ruled by a lesser divinity, the demiurge, and that christ was an emissary of the remote supreme divine being, esoteric knowledge (gnosis) of whom enabled the redemption of the human spirit.

Usage examples:

And john's gospel is certainly far removed from the full-blown gnosticism which the later church fa…

Meanings of Gnotobiote:

adjective

Relating to or denoting an environment for rearing or culturing organisms in which all the microorganisms are either known or excluded.

Usage examples:

The march 30th issue of the proceedings of the national academy of sciences, with a warholian zebra…

Meanings of Gnotobiotic:

adjective

Relating to or denoting an environment for rearing or culturing organisms in which all the microorganisms are either known or excluded.

Usage examples:

The march 30th issue of the proceedings of the national academy of sciences, with a warholian zebra…

Meanings of Gnotobiotics:

adjective

Relating to or denoting an environment for rearing or culturing organisms in which all the microorganisms are either known or excluded.

Usage examples:

The march 30th issue of the proceedings of the national academy of sciences, with a warholian zebra…

Meanings of Gns:

abbreviation

Guineas.

Meanings of Gnu:

noun

A large dark african antelope with a long head, a beard and mane, and a sloping back.

Usage examples:

In eastern africa, they mostly hunt thomson's gazelles, but they will also attack calves, warthogs,…

Meanings of Gnus:

noun

A large dark african antelope with a long head, a beard and mane, and a sloping back.

Usage examples:

In eastern africa, they mostly hunt thomson's gazelles, but they will also attack calves, warthogs,…