NOM

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nom"

English

Proper noun

NOM

1. Initialism of National Organization for Marriage.
   • 2014, Wallace Swan, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Civil Rights, page 65:

     National Organization for Marriage The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) was formed in 2007 with the intention of organizing and focusing the opposition to same-sex marriage in a single national voice.

   • 2018, Clyde Wilcox, Onward Christian Soldiers?: The Religious Right in American Politics:

     A number of groups have formed in recent years around the same-sex marriage issue. By 2010 two organizations had taken center stage at the national level. Founded in 2007, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization that lobbies and builds grass-roots campaigns in support of traditional marriage—that is, in opposition to same-sex marriage—at the state and national levels.

   • 2018, Rhonda Gibson, Same-Sex Marriage and Social Media:

     The Washington Post has referred to NOM as the “preeminent organization dedicated to preventing the legalization of same-sex marriage" (Hesse, 2009).

   • 2019 November 7, Aila Slisco, “Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito Urged to Recuse Themselves from LGBT Cases”, in Newsweek:

     NOM advocates for what they claim is "traditional marriage," and hope to take marriage rights away from same sex couples.

Anagrams

• MNO, MON, Mon, Mon., ONM, mon, mon-, mon.

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Latin

Proper noun

NOM

1. Novus Ordo Missae

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Spanish

Noun

NOM f (plural NOM)

1. Initialism of Norma Oficial Mexicana (Official Mexican Standard), each of a series of official, compulsory standards and regulations for diverse activities in Mexico.