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nao¹

  • /naʊ/

Sounds like now · Rhymes with -aʊ

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Spanish nao.

noun naos

  1. historical, rare A Spanish or Portuguese carrack. I got vivid descriptions of the sea battle at Chaul from the Mamluk sailors and the Ottoman gunners so that I could clearly visualise the Mamluk galleys and the Ottoman guns battling the Portuguese naos at the entrance of the Kundalika river.

nao²

  • /naʊ/

Sounds like now · Rhymes with -aʊ

adjective

  1. Internet, deliberate, humorous, misspelling Deliberate misspelling of now.now

adverb

  1. Internet, deliberate, humorous, misspelling Deliberate misspelling of now.now

NAO³

proper noun

  1. US, abbreviation, historical, initialism Initialism of National Applications Office: a former agent of the United States Department of Homeland Security.National Applications Office
  2. UK, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of National Audit Office.National Audit Office
  3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Nautical Almanac Office.Nautical Almanac Office
  4. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of North Atlantic oscillation.North Atlantic oscillation
  5. abbreviation Abbreviation of Nenets Autonomous Okrug: a federal subject of Russia.Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Nao⁴

proper noun

  1. A female or male given name from Japanese.

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