"gnome" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use "gnome" to refer to a mythical creature, usually resembling a small old man with a beard and wearing a pointed hat. For example, "She had a garden full of gnomes in her backyard."
He was also a naturally kind and approachable person, of small stature - a bit like a genial gnome - and he was prepared to change his mind when convinced.
So, if Sears Grand works, that customer might arrive laser-shopping for a new wrench, but leave with an Oxford cotton shirt and a plastic gnome as well.If department stores retreat from the suburban malls, who will move in?
My self-awareness blooms.(The personal gnome courtesy of Tim Regan through a Creative Commons licence on Flickr).
All trusted him completely, regarding this genial gnome as something of a financial genius.In this section Will these modest proposals provoke mayhem down on the farm?
Gnome ownership declined from about 5 million in 1990 to 3.8 million in 2001.
Simon Stratton, 32, who lives in Cardiff with his partner, Elinor Robson, treasures a garden gnome with which he appears in the short film, Gnome "It's the first time I have ever done anything like that, been in a movie short, and to experience that kind of thing... was really interesting.
Coming right at the end of both the match and an astonishing international career, it was the almost eerily appropriate departure of arguably the most relentessly mischievous gnome in the history of his or any other sport.
There fans speak of his "endearingly funny face" which is "a little like a garden gnome".
In 2009, Jekka McVicar was forced to hide her gnome, Borage, in foliage lest judges spot him.
First, a signed gnome that appeared on the cover of The Beatles Sgtt Pepper's album was expected to fetch about £17,000 at auction yesterday.
Maybe if you're P Diddy and your wires are crossed and you have to promote your pyjama range while selling your garden gnome accessories".
