Gnome (disambiguation)
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Gnome usually refers to a gnome, one of a mythical race of small people, or to:
- Gnome (Dungeons & Dragons) — a race in Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
- Noldor — one of the tribes of Elves in Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, called Gnomes in Tolkien's early works.
- Gnome (Warcraft) — small sentients in the fictional world of Azeroth.
- Gnome (Dragonlance), a spin-off of the Dungeons & Dragons gnome, who populate Mount Nevermind in the fictional world of Krynn in the series of fantasy novels, Dragonlance. They are also called Tinker Gnomes.
Gnome may also refer to:
- Gnome (rhetoric), saying or maxim providing instruction in compact form
- GNOME — a desktop environment for computers running Unix and Unix-like operating systems.
- Gnome Engine Company — an early 20th Century aircraft engine manufacturer.
- Gnomes of Zürich — disparaging term for Swiss bankers.
- Gnome (comics) — Doctor Horst Kleinmann, a villain appearing in the Marvel Comics series Nightmask
- Gnomes (South Park episode) — the underpants gnomes (who steal underpants)
- Ramón Mercader — a foreign agent of the USSR codenamed GNOME, who assassinated Leon Trotsky.
- G-Nome, a mech PC game created by 7th Level.
- Project GNOME, a nuclear test in 1961.
- The Secret Book of Gnomes, picture book series by Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet
- In Wikipedia, WikiGnomes are editors who focus on minor but useful edits rather than creating extensive new content.