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nes·tor
\ˈnestə(r); -ˌstȯ(ə)r, -ȯ(ə)\ noun
Etymology: after Nestor, legendary Greek hero known for long life and wisdom (from Latin & Greek; Latin, from Greek Nestōr)
1. -s often capitalized : a wise elder counselor : a grand old man : one regarded as patriarch or leader in his field
< the Nestor of that great-statured generation — J.R.Chamberlain >
< the nestor of American philosophy — D.D.Runes >
2. capitalized [New Latin, from Latin] : a genus of large parrots of New Zealand and the Papuan subregion that include the kaka and the kea and with related forms constitute a subfamily of Psittacidae or in some classifications a separate family
3. -s [by alteration] : nester 2
< horse-and-cow-men, when they got to timbered country, found nestors and sodbusters, who were their natural enemies — W.F.Harris > |