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Nes⋅tor

  [nes-ter, -tawr]
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–noun Classical Mythology.
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
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Nes·tor   (něs'tər, -tôr')   
n.   Greek Mythology

  1. A hero celebrated as an elderly and wise counselor to the Greeks at Troy.

  2. often nestor A venerable and wise old man.


[Greek Nestōr.]
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Nestor 
name for "old king renowned for wise counsel," 1588, from Gk., name of the aged and wise hero in the "Iliad." In Church history, a Nestorian (1449) is a follower of Nestorius, 5c. patriarch of Constantinople, whose doctrine attributed distinct divine and human persons to Christ and was condemned as heresy.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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