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Definition of Nestor

1. Noun. (Greek mythology) a wise old counselor to the Greeks at Troy.

2. Noun. A genus of Psittacidae.

Definition of Nestor

1. n. A genus of parrots with gray heads. of New Zeland and papua, allied to the cockatoos. See Kaka.

Definition of Nestor

1. a wise old man [n -S]

Medical Definition of Nestor

1. A genus of parrots with gray heads. Of new Zeland and papua, allied to the cockatoos. See Kaka. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Nestor

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Literary usage of Nestor

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1. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"TELEMACHUS SAILS TO PYLOS, AND THERE SEES Nestor, WHO TELLS HIM OF AGAMEMNON ... So go thou straight unto Nestor, the tamer of the steed, Tnat we learn what ..."

2. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1897)
"Lorenz on the Nestor Parrots. [Ueber die Nestor-Papageien. Von Dr. L. v. ... Dr. Lorenz is therefore of opinion that the southern form of Nestor should be ..."

3. Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical by Christopher Wordsworth (1844)
"Here sat Nestor with his sons. Here that intercourse took place between ... Here the old Nestor was accosted with a reverential awe by the youthful son of ..."

4. Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical by Christopher Wordsworth (1844)
"Here sat Nestor with his sons. Here that intercourse took place between ... Here the old Nestor was accosted with a reverential awe by the youthful son of ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1914)
"AD 1116; as long as Nestor was regarded as the author, ... [For a minute study of Nestor the editions of the Laurentian (1846 and 1872) and the ..."

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