Nestor may refer to:
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Nestor (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Nestor of Gerenia (, ''Nestōr Gerēnios'') was a legendary king of Pylos. He is a prominent secondary character in Homer's ''Iliad'' and ''Odyssey'', where he appears as an elderly warrior who frequently offers advice to th ...
, King of Pylos in Greek mythology
Arts and entertainment
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"Nestor" (''Ulysses'' episode) an episode in James Joyce's novel ''Ulysses''
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Nestor Studios
The Nestor Film Company, originally known as the Nestor Motion Picture Company, was an American motion picture production company. It was founded in 1909 as the West Coast production unit of the Centaur Film Company located in Bayonne, New Jersey ...
, first-ever motion picture studio in Hollywood, Los Angeles
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Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey'', a Christmas television program
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Nestor (band), Swedish rock band
Locations
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Nestor, San Diego
Nestor is a residential neighborhood in the southern section of San Diego, California, part of the Otay Mesa-Nestor community planning area. It neighbors Palm City and Otay Mesa West to the east, Egger Highlands to the north, San Ysidro to ...
, a neighborhood of San Diego, California, USA
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Mount Nestor (Antarctica), in the
Achaean Range
Achaean Range () is a mountain range rising to in the central part of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago. It is bounded on the east by Iliad Glacier and Trojan Range and on the west by Marr Ice Piedmont, and extends northwest from Mount Aga ...
of Antarctica
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Mount Nestor (Alberta), a mountain in Alberta, Canada
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659 Nestor, an asteroid
People
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Nestor (surname)
Nestor is, apart from a given name, also found as a surname borne by Irish people, Irish and Estonians.
In Ireland, it was derived as a shortened form of ''Mac Girr an Adhastair'', meaning ''son of the short man of the bridle''. It was sometimes s ...
, anglicised form of Mac an Adhastair, an Irish family
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Nestor (given name)
Nestor, or Néstor, is a given name of Greek language, Greek origin. In Greek mythology it comes from that of Nestor (mythology), Nestor, the son of Neleus, the King of Pylos and Chloris. The Greek derivation is from a combination of , and .
The ...
, a name of Greek origin, from Greek mythology
Science and technology
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''Nestor'' (genus), a genus of parrots
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NESTOR Project, an international scientific collaboration for the deployment of a neutrino telescope
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NESTOR (encryption), a family of voice encryption devices used by the United States during the Vietnam War era
Ships
* , three ships of the Royal Navy
** , a Second World War Royal Australian Navy destroyer which remained the property of the British Royal Navy
* , a number of ships of this name
* , an LNG carrier
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''Nestor'' (sternwheeler), a steamboat that operated in Oregon and Washington State
Other uses
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Nestor (solitaire), a card game
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Tropical Storm Nestor
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Typhoon Nestor (1997)
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West Cornwall Railway steam locomotive
See also
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Dniester
The Dniester ( ) is a transboundary river in Eastern Europe. It runs first through Ukraine and then through Moldova (from which it more or less separates the breakaway territory of Transnistria), finally discharging into the Black Sea on Uk ...
, a river in Eastern Europe
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Nester (disambiguation)
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Nestori, a given name
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Nestorianism
Nestorianism is a term used in Christian theology and Church history to refer to several mutually related but doctrinary, doctrinarily distinct sets of teachings. The first meaning of the term is related to the original teachings of Christian t ...
, a Christian theological doctrine condemned as heretical at the Council of Ephesus in 431
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Nestorius
Nestorius of Constantinople (; ; ) was an early Christian prelate who served as Archbishop of Constantinople from 10 April 428 to 11 July 431. A Christian theologian from the Catechetical School of Antioch, several of his teachings in the fi ...
, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople 428–431
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