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Definitions: Nestor |
NestorNoun1. (Greek mythology) a wise old counselor to the Greeks at Troy. 2. A genus of Psittacidae. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Nestor" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the homecoming". |
Date "Nestor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
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Literature | Nestor King of Pylos, in Greece; the oldest and most experienced of the chieftains who went to the siege of Troy A "Nestor" means the oldest and wisest man of a class or company. (Homer Iliad.) Nestor of the chemical revolution. A term applied by Lavoister to Dr. Black. (1728-1799.) Nestor of Europe. Leopold, King of Belgium (1790, 1831-1865). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Greek mythology, Nestor was the son of Neleus, the King of Pylos and Chloris. Heracles killed all of his brothers and sisters.
Nestor was an Argonaut and participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar. He and his son, Antilochus, fought on the side of Greece in the Trojan War. Though Nestor was already very old when the war began, he was noted for his bravery. Antilochus was killed in battle by Memnon.
Iliad I, 248; II, 370; IV, 293. Odyssey III, 157, 343.
Nestor had two other sons: Aretus and Pisistratus (Odyssey III, 414)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nestor."
Synonym: NestorSynonym: genus Nestor (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Advice | Adviser, prompter; counsel, counselor; monitor, mentor, Nestor, magnus Apollo, senator; teacher. |
Sage | Authority, oracle, luminary, shining light, esprit fort, magnus Apollo, Solon, Solomon, Nestor, Magi, "second Daniel." |
Veteran | Preadamite, Methuselah, Nestor, old Parr; elders; forefathers; (paternity). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nestor |
| English words defined with "Nestor": genus Nestor ♦ Kaka ♦ Nestor notabilis, Nestorian. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Nestor": Interface Description Language ♦ Maugis ♦ Raymond ♦ Shaking Hands. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Nestor" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (doyen, father). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Nestor Burma (1991) | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He would put into his poem an old babbler like me, and he would call him Nestor. |
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Discrimination | El Salvador | There were no new developments in the 1999 murders of transvestite prostitutes Doris and Nestor Adonai Marenco (known as Gloria). (references) |
Economic History | Bolivia | Paz Zamora took a fairly hard line against domestic terrorism, personally ordering the December 1990 attack on terrorists of the Nestor Paz Zamora Committee (CNPZ--named after his brother who died in the 1970 Teoponte insurgency) and authorizing the early 1992 crackdown against the Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army (EGTK). (references) |
Human Rights | Cuba | Nestor Rodriguez Lobaina, the president of the organization, received a 6-year sentence for allegedly causing a public disturbance and disrespect. (references) |
Worker Rights | Cuba | On July 23, police briefly detained Nestor Gonzalez Penton, a member of the Confederation of Democratic Workers of Cuba in Santa Clara. (references) |
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| "Nestor" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "Nestor" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 81.82% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 18.18% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "Nestor" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Nestor | First name Male | 9,000 | 706 |
| Nestor | Last name | 3,000 | 4,592 |
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| "Nestor" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the homecoming". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Nestor." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Nestor | Male | Greek Mythology | N/A |
| Nestore | Male | Italian | Nestor |
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| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Nestor Healthcare Group PLC |
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Expressions using "Nestor": genus Nestor ♦ nestor meridionalis ♦ nestor notabilis. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nestor | 81 |
kirchner nestor | 53 |
nestor falls | 28 |
nestor torres | 18 |
nestor garcia canclini | 14 |
nestor falls ontario | 11 |
carbonell nestor | 8 |
nestor santiago | 8 |
nestor serrano | 7 |
nasty nestor | 6 |
burma nestor | 6 |
nestor aparicio | 4 |
nestor sales | 4 |
canada falls nestor | 4 |
gonzalez nestor | 4 |
daniel nestor | 4 |
nestor reiff | 3 |
nestor santiago v | 3 |
nestor pistor | 3 |
nestor pam | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "Nestor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | νέστωρ, νέστορασ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 네스 르. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | estornay înţelept (advisedly, philosopher, philosophic, philosophical, politic, profound, prudent, ripe, sagacious, sage, sapient, thinking, well advised, wise, wisely). (various references) người cố vấn gi mưu trí. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "Nestor": nestors. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Nestor" (pronounced ne"ster) |
| 5 | n e" s t er | nester. |
| 4 | -e" s t er | ester, fester, investor, jester, molester, pester, polyester, requester, rester, semester, sequester, tester, trimester, Wester. |
| 3 | -s t er | adjuster, administer, alabaster, ancestor, aster, banister, bannister, barrister, blaster, blister, blockbuster, bluster, bolster, booster, broadcaster, burgomaster, Buster, canister, cannister, caster, Castor, cloister, cluster, coaster, concertmaster, coster, Dempster, Dexter, digester, disaster, dumpster, duster, Easter, faster, Feaster, filibuster, fluster, forecaster, Forester, Foster, gangbuster, gangster, Gaster, grandmaster, hamster, harvester, headmaster, heister, holster, huckster, imposter, impostor, juster, keister, kiester, lackluster, laster, Leister, Lister, lobster, Luster, lustre, master, minister, Minster, Mister, mobster, monster, muenster, Munster, muster, newscaster, oldster, oleaster, ouster, oyster, paster, pastor, pilaster, plaster, pollster, poster, postmaster, prankster, protester, quartermaster, raster, register, ringmaster, roadster, roaster, roister, rooster, roster, royster, schoolmaster, scoutmaster, seamster, shyster, sinister, sister, spinster, sportscaster, stepsister, taskmaster, taster, teamster, thruster, tipster, toaster, toastmaster, transistor, trickster, twister, Ulster, upholster, waster, Webster, youngster, zoster. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: noters, stoner, tenors, tensor, toners, trones. | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: nerts, noter, notes, onset, rents, roset, rotes, senor, seton, snore, snort, steno, stern, stone, store, tenor, terns, toner, tones, tores, torse, trone. | |
-2 letters: eons, erns, eros, erst, nest, nets, noes, nose, note, ones, ores, orts, rent, rest, rets, roes, rose, rote, rots, sent, snot, sone, sore, sorn, sort, tens, tern, toes, tone, tons, tore, torn, tors. | |
-3 letters: ens, eon, ern, ers, net, nor, nos, not, oes, one, ons, ore, ors, ort, ose, res, ret, roe, rot, sen, ser, set, son, sot, ten, toe, ton, tor. | |
-4 letters: en, er, es, et, ne, no, oe, on, or, os, re, so, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: atoners, cornets, enroots, estrone, frontes, hornets, mentors, monster, nestors, norites, oestrin, orients, postern, rodents, senator, shorten, snorted, snorter, sorbent, stentor, stoners, stonier, tenours, tensors, thrones, tongers, tonners, tonsure, treason. | |
+2 letters: ancestor, antrorse, assentor, baronets, bestrown, bethorns, bornites, brownest, burstone, cointers, concerts, construe, converts, corniest, coronets, counters, crownets, drystone, earstone, enactors, enterons, entresol, estragon, estrogen, estrones, extensor, forspent, fortunes, genitors, honester, horniest, instroke, intoners, introrse, investor, jointers, knotters, mesotron, monstera, monsters, monteros, mordents, mounters, negators, networks, neutrons, northers, notaries, notchers, noticers, notornes, oestrins, oestrone, oneriest, onstream, operants, ornithes, outearns, outsnore, pointers, porniest, portends, portents, posterns, pronates, proteans, proteins, protends, recounts, refronts, remounts, resonant, resonate, retinols, rontgens, roundest, routines, seafront, senators, senorita, serotine, shortens, snootier, snorters, snottier, snoutier, softener, songster, sorbents, southern, starnose, stentors, sternson, stronger, sturgeon, tenoners, tenorist, ternions, tonearms, tonsured, tonsures, torments, torrents, tourneys, treasons, tritones, tropines, trounces, turnsole, tyrosine, unsorted, wrongest. | |
+3 letters: absorbent, accentors, adsorbent, aerations, aeronauts, ancestors, anchorets, anestrous, anointers, anoretics, anterooms, assentors, assertion, atropines, attorneys, baritones, barytones, betatrons, bevatrons, brimstone, bronziest, browniest, buhrstone, burgonets, burrstone, burstones, buttoners, carotenes, centroids, concertos, concretes, confuters, consenter, consorted, construed, construes, consulter, contester, contrives, coparents, copresent, corantoes, cornetist, coronates, corseting, cortisone, countries, courantes, courtesan, creations, creodonts, cretinous, cretonnes, curbstone, daneworts, desertion, dethrones, deuterons, disorient, doctrines, dragonets, dripstone, earstones, electrons, emanators, enthrones, entoderms, entrepots, entresols, entropies, erections, eruptions, erythrons, escorting, estragons, estrogens, exertions, exsertion, extensors, extrusion, firestone, fomenters, foresting, fostering, fourteens, freestone, frontages, frontiers, frontless, frontlets, honeworts, hornstone, horsemint, inceptors, indentors, infectors, injectors, innermost, insertion, inspector, instrokes, intercoms, interiors, interpose, inthrones, introfies, inventors, invertors, investors, ironstone, jointress, jointures, kenotrons, keynoters, marlstone, mesotrons, mestranol, misorient, modernest, modernist, moistener, monastery, monoester, monsteras, motioners, narrowest, nectarous, negatrons, neoterics, nervosity, neurotics, neutrinos, nitrogens, nocturnes, nondesert, nonskater, nonvoters, northeast, northerns, northwest, notarizes, notifiers, observant, obtainers, oestrones, orangiest, ordinates, orientals, ornaments, orneriest, orpiments, otherness, outlearns, outliners, outpreens, outrances, outranges, outsnored, outsnores, overhunts, overspent, overtness, overtones, overturns, oystering, oysterman, oystermen, patentors, patroness, patronise, personate, petronels, plectrons, portances, postponer, progestin, ratooners, reactions, reanoints, rebuttons, relations, remoisten, remotions, renovates, reobtains, reorients, resection, resolvent, resonants, resonated, resonates, resonator, resorting, restoking, restoring, retinoids, roentgens, rondelets, rotenones, rottenest, roundlets, rousement, sclerotin, seafronts, secretion, sectoring, senhorita, seniority, senoritas, serotinal, serotines, serotonin, serration, shortened, shortener, shortness, snakeroot, softeners, songsters, sonneteer, sortieing, southerns, sportsmen, starnoses, stationer, stereoing, sternmost, sternpost, sternsons, stonecrop, stoneware, stonework, stonewort, strenuous, strongest, strongmen, strongyle, sturgeons, sunstroke, taborines, teardowns, tenebrous, tenorists, tenorites, tensioner, terpinols, tetragons, thermions, thorniest, thornless, threnodes, tornadoes, tournedos, transpose, trecentos, tricornes, trombones, trotlines, trouncers, trudgeons, turnovers, turnsoles, turnstone, tyrosines, undermost, undershot, undertows, unstopper, unthrones, uptowners, venturous, wantoners, youngster. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 73 74 6F 72 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . ... - --- .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e s t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0073 0074 006F 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)487185868184 |
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