nero

Speech parts

1. nero - Noun

2. Nero - Proper noun

Meaning

A Roman emperor notorius for debauchery and barbarous cruelty; hence, any profligate and cruel ruler or merciless tyrant.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

black Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus ebony sable dark charcoal gloomy murky somber swarthy jet-black inky pitch-black swart
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Phrases with the word

tiberius claudius drusus nero germanicus roman emperor nero

Anagrams

Erno oner Oren Orne reno Roen Rone

Examples

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor. Walter Bagehot

There live Christ and Nero in our hearts. Antoni Lange

Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three.” Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He's thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers. Constantine P. Cavafy

At no point during his ordeal did Nero think of himself as 72% alive and 28% dead. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms to fill in the grave, and her grass to cover it pitifully up, adding flowers - as an unknown hand added them to the grave of Nero. Edward Thomas (poet)

Nero omi median, nai Demi Mooren. Finnish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Nernst lamp Nernst potential Nernstian nero antico Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus nero di seppia