1 (in stories) a creature like a small man with white hair and a pointed hat who lives under the ground and guards gold and precious things: (informal) the gnomes of Zurich (= Swiss bankers who control foreign money)
2 a plastic or stone figure of a gnome, used as a garden ornament
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