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napoleon
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noun
  1. a gold coin worth twenty francs issued by Napoleon I; a twenty-franc coin
  • 1891: We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources, and borrowed, for that purpose, thirty thousand napoleons from the Bank of France. " Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Red-Headed League" (Norton 2005 p.67)
Nathan
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male, ) of Biblical origin; diminutive Nate
  2. an Old Testament prophet
nation
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noun
  1. A group of people sharing aspects of language, culture and/or ethnicity.
The Roma are a without a country.
  1. A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture
The Kurdish people constitute a in the Middle East
  1. (international law) A sovereign state.
Though legally single nations, many states comprise several distinct cultural or ethnic groups.
adverb
  1. (chiefly dialect) extremely, Extremely; very
I'm sorry for you. -- Mark Twain
nelson
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noun
  1. (cricket) a score of 111, sometimes considered to be unlucky (supposedly from the belief that Lord Nelson had one eye, one arm and one leg (disputed))
    1. a wrestling hold in which a wrestler's arm is locked behind his back
neper
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noun
  1. A unit of attenuation used in transmission line theory; equivalent to 8.686 dB.
Neville
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proper noun
  1. A male given name.
Newcastle
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proper noun
  1. A city in northeastern England.
    1. A city in New South Wales, Australia, situated at the mouth of the Hunter River.
    2. A town in Northern Ireland.
    3. A town located in Lincoln County, Maine.
    4. A village located in Dixon County, Nebraska.
    5. A town located in McClain? County, Oklahoma.
    6. A town located in Young County, Texas.
    7. A town located in King County, Washington.
    8. A town located in Weston County, Wyoming.
Newman
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noun
  1. a surname
Newton
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noun , (plural: Newton)
  1. newton (unit of measure)
proper noun
  1. The name of many English places, from the Old English new settlement
  2. An English habitational surname for someone from any of these places
  3. w:Isaac Newton, Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher
Nicholas
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proper noun (plural Nicholases)
  1. (given name, male, from Greek). Best known for a legendary St. Nicholas, associated with Father Christmas.
nightingale
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noun
  1. A European singing bird, Luscinia megarhynchos in the family Turdidae.
nobel
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adjective Nobel
  1. (misspelling of, noble)
  2. Of or pertaining to a Nobel Prize.
Norris
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proper noun
  1. A male given name', meaning From the north.''
North
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proper noun the North
  1. The Union during the American Civil War.
  2. The northern states of the United States.
  3. The northern part of any region.
Norton
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proper noun
  1. Any of many placenames from words meaning north and enclosure
  2. An English habitational surname from any of these places
  3. A British motorcycle manufacturer
(wikipedia, Norton (motorcycle))
Nostradamus
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proper noun
  1. French astrologer and author of prophecies
NU
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abbreviation
  1. Nunavut (Canadian territory)
  2. Nuoro (Italian city in Sardegna)
nutting
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verb
  1. (present participle of, nut)
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