In grammar, abbreviation for nominative.

(French) “name”. nom de guerre, “war name”; pseudonym. nom de plume, “pen name”; writer’s pseudonym.

Chinese-style characters used in writing the Vietnamese language. Nom characters were used from the 13th century for Vietnamese literature, but were replaced in the 19th century by a romanized script known as Quoc Ngu. The greatest Nom writer was the poet Nguyen Du.