Nome (n?m) A city of western Alaska on Norton Sound and the southern coast of Seward Peninsula. It was founded as a gold-mining camp in 1898 and became a boomtown during the gold rush.nome (n?m)n.1. A province of Pharaonic, Hellenistic, and Roman Egypt.2. A nomarchy.[Greek nomos, district, custom; see nem- in Indo-European roots.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.nome (n??m) n1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) any of the former provinces of modern Greece; nomarchy2. (Historical Terms) an administrative division of ancient Egypt[C18: from Greek nomos pasture, region]Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014Nome (no?m) n. 1. a seaport in W Alaska. 2301. 2. Cape, a cape in W Alaska, on Seward Peninsula, W of Nome. Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.