city in W Alas., on the S coast of Seward Peninsula: pop. 3,500
See nome in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(nōm)
noun
A province of Pharaonic, Hellenistic, and Roman Egypt.
A nomarchy.
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A city of western Alaska on Norton Sound and the southern coast of Seward Peninsula. It was founded as a gold-mining camp in 1896 and was an important center of the Alaskan gold rush from 1899 to 1903. Population: 3,550.