Gnome - перевод на Русский и значение в Английском

noun

A legendary dwarfish creature supposed to guard the earth's treasures underground.

Примеры использования:

Elves and men and gnomes and goblins alike looked about in fear and confusion.

noun

A short statement encapsulating a general truth; a maxim.

noun

(in children’s stories) an imaginary, very small old man who lives underground and guards gold and other valuable objects

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An imaginary, very small, old man with a beard and a pointed hat, in traditional children's stories

noun

A model of a gnome used as a garden decoration

Примеры использования:

Garden gnome i don't think garden gnomes are in very good taste.

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A person who works by using their mind, but does not talk to, and is not known by, the public

Примеры использования:

The gnomes in the back room are putting the finishing touches to the new software.

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The powerful bankers (= people who own or control banks) from switzerland who control a lot of money, much of it belonging to foreign governments

Примеры использования:

He had, perhaps unfairly, blamed the gnomes of zurich for the sterling crisis.