Nestor

[ nes-ter, -tawr ]

/ ˈnɛs tər, -tɔr /

the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.

Example sentences from the Web for nestor

With names like Nestor, Clarissa, and Ludwig, the characters are equally referential.

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Nestor Ramirez, a book promoter from Mexico City was equally pessimistic.

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Wish Nestor Carbonell had more to do.Verdict: Crossed lines.

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He spotted Nestor Gabriel Caballero Gutierrez, 39, of Aloha, Oregon, limping down the road.

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Nestor, in the chariot of Diomede, goes against Hector, whose charioteer is slain by Diomede.

The Iliad of Homer (1873) |Homer
Maybe we can find the batteries somewhere in the dirt, suggested Nestor.

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And the goddess told Telemachus that Nestor, the King whom he had come to seek, was on the shore.

The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy |Padriac Colum
Here a six-foot Stoic, the Nestor of the glen, is very formally going through the ceremony of loading.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Vol. XV., No. 85. January, 1875. |Various
Another indeed would have removed it with difficulty from the table, being full; but aged Nestor raised it without difficulty.

The Iliad of Homer (1873) |Homer

Nestor

/ (ˈnɛstɔː) /

Greek myth the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War

(sometimes not capital) a wise old man; sage