elm
/ˈɛləm/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.36 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.
Countable
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A village and civil parish in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF4706).
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An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Missouri, United States.
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An unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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A village in Glarus canton, Switzerland.
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A surname.
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A functional programming language for creating web applications.
Example Sentences
- "It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by."
- "The village is a dignified place of thatch, half-timbering, box hedges and neat farms, set among elms (though not as many as formerly, since Dutch elm disease took its toll) on the level plain of the Pewsey Vale."
- "English soldiers handled sturdy bows of yew, ash, or elm, which could propel an iron-tipped arrow as far as a hundred yards."
- "Elm as a language can be seen from different angles. The main purpose of the language and the platform is to create web applications."
Etymology
From Middle English elme, elm, from Old English elm, from Proto-West Germanic *elm, from Proto-Germanic *elmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élem (“mountain elm”). See also dialectal Low German Elm, dialectal German Ilm, archaic German Ilme, Norwegian and Swedish alm; also Irish leamh, Latin ulmus, Albanian ulzë (“maple”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: elme, elm, *elm, *elmaz, *h₁élem
Usage
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Derived Forms
Phrases
American elm
Atinian elm
bastard elm
Camperdown elm
Caucasian elm
cedar elm
cherry bark elm
chestnut-leafed elm