Usually means: Wise leader or elder figure.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nestor, Nestor: Merriam-Webster
  2. Nestor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Nestor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Nestor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Nestor: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nestor: Wordnik
  7. Nestor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Nestor: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Nestor, nestor: Dictionary.com
  10. Nestor: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. NESTOR (encryption), Nestor (comics), Nestor (disambiguation), Nestor (genus), Nestor (given name), Nestor (mythology), Nestor (solitaire), Nestor (sternwheeler), Nestor (surname), Nestor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Nestor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. nestor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Nestor: Rhymezone
  15. Nestor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. Nestor: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  17. Nestor: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. nestor: FreeDictionary.org
  19. nestor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Nestor: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. nestor: Wiktionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nestor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. NESTOR: Acronym Finder
  3. nestor: A Word A Day
  4. nestor: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nestor: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Nestor)

▸ noun:  (Greek mythology) An old and wise king in Homer's Iliad.
▸ noun:  A male given name from Ancient Greek, rare in English.
▸ noun:  A wise old man, especially one who serves as a counselor or adviser.
▸ noun:  Any parrot of the genus Nestor.

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genus nestor, hector, Polymnestor, Polymestor, Senectus, Laertes, homer, Anchises, Odysseus, Œneus, more...

Phrases:
nestor notabilis, genus nestor, nestor paz zamora commission, nestor meridionalis, Nestor Makhno, more...

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old, aged, venerable, wise, young, godlike, gerenian, noble, russian, ancient, poor

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Similar:
genus nestor, hector, Polymnestor, Polymestor, Senectus, Laertes, homer, Anchises, Odysseus, Œneus, more...

Phrases:
nestor notabilis, genus nestor, nestor paz zamora commission, nestor meridionalis, Nestor Makhno, Nestor Serrano, Nestor Lakoba, James Nestor, Nestor the Chronicler, Rodrigo Nestor, Nestor Shufrych, more...

Adjectives:
old, aged, venerable, wise, young, godlike, gerenian, noble, russian, ancient, poor

Colors:
    emerald,     sapphire,     teal,     maroon,     burgundy, more...



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