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Meanings of Nay:

adverb

Or rather (used to emphasize a more appropriate word than one just used).

Usage examples:

Permission to build the superstore will take months, nay years

noun

A negative answer.

Usage examples:

The cabinet sits to give the final yea or nay to policies

Meanings of Nayar:

noun

A member of a traditionally matrilineal hindu ruling caste in kerala, india. formerly also in extended use.

adjective

Of or relating to the nairs.

Meanings of Nayarit:

proper noun

A state of western mexico, on the pacific coast; capital, tepic.

Meanings of Nays:

noun

A negative answer.

Usage examples:

The cabinet sits to give the final yea or nay to policies

adverb

Or rather (used to emphasize a more appropriate word than one just used)

Usage examples:

Permission to build the superstore will take months, nay years

Meanings of Naysay:

verb

Say no to; deny or oppose.

Usage examples:

I'm not going to naysay anything he does

Meanings of Naysayer:

noun

A person who criticizes, objects to, or opposes something.

Usage examples:

He continues to win, despite the many naysayers

Meanings of Naysaying:

verb

Say no to; deny or oppose.

Usage examples:

I'm not going to naysay anything he does

Meanings of Nazarean:

noun

= "nazarene".

adjective

= "nazarene". in quot. 1876 perhaps = "nazirite".

Meanings of Nazarene:

noun

A native or inhabitant of nazareth.

Usage examples:

Surely if the nazarenes had called out to jesus as bartimaeus did, he would have opened their eyes,…

adjective

Relating to nazareth or nazarenes.

Usage examples:

The question is merely a challenge to our accepted patterns of life, a threat to our content minds …

Meanings of Nazarenes:

noun

A native or inhabitant of nazareth.

Usage examples:

Surely if the nazarenes had called out to jesus as bartimaeus did, he would have opened their eyes,…

adjective

Relating to nazareth or nazarenes.

Usage examples:

The question is merely a challenge to our accepted patterns of life, a threat to our content minds …

Meanings of Nazarenism:

noun

The characteristics or artistic principles of the nazarene school of artists or their followers; archaism. compare "nazarene". in quot. 1947 in extended use.

Meanings of Nazareth:

proper noun

A historic town in lower galilee, in present-day northern israel; population 66,400 (est. 2008). mentioned in the gospels as the home of mary and joseph, it is closely associated with the childhood of jesus and is a centre of christian pilgrimage.

Meanings of Nazarite:

noun

An israelite who was consecrated to the service of god, under vows to abstain from alcohol, let the hair grow, and avoid defilement by contact with dead bodies (num. 6).

Usage examples:

Samson was a nazarite (also spelled nazirite).

Meanings of Nazaritic:

adjective

Nazirite.

Meanings of Nazi:

noun

A member of the far-right national socialist german workers' party.

Usage examples:

The term is a reference to the fascist counterrevolution, that which the nazis called the national …

adjective

A member of the national socialist german workers' party.

Meanings of Nazification:

noun

The action of nazifying; the fact of being nazified.

Meanings of Nazified:

verb

Make nazi in character.

Usage examples:

He tried to nazify the church and schools

Meanings of Nazifies:

verb

Make nazi in character.

Usage examples:

He tried to nazify the church and schools

Meanings of Nazify:

verb

Make nazi in character.

Usage examples:

He tried to nazify the church and schools

Meanings of Nazifying:

verb

Make nazi in character.

Usage examples:

He tried to nazify the church and schools

Meanings of Naziism:

noun

The political principles of the national socialist german workers' party.

Usage examples:

The rise of nazism in pre-war germany

Meanings of Nazim:

noun

(in pakistan) the chief elected official in a local government.

Usage examples:

She said that as district nazim she had provided gas to 75 villages

Meanings of Nazir:

noun

An official, superintendent, or steward in a muslim country; the title of such a person.

Meanings of Nazirate:

noun

The state or condition of being a nazirite; = naziriteship .

Meanings of Nazirite:

noun

An israelite who was consecrated to the service of god, under vows to abstain from alcohol, let the hair grow, and avoid defilement by contact with dead bodies (num. 6).

Usage examples:

Samson was a nazarite (also spelled nazirite).