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PRONUNCIATION:

(NES-tuhr)

MEANING:

noun: A wise old man.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Nestor, king of Pylos, who was the oldest and wisest of the Greeks and served as a counselor in the Trojan War. Earliest documented use: around 1510.

USAGE:

"Roland Shaw was not only an oil man; he was the Nestor of the oil business, there when the first donkey nodded."
Bruce Anderson; The Long-Life Cocktail; The Spectator (London, UK); Nov 19, 2011.

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