kam
/kˈæm/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.06 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Initialism of key account manager, an account manager with overall responsibility for a customer relationship.
Example Sentences
- "[Agrippa] Mene[nius Lanatus]. […] And what is left, to looſe it by his Countrey, / Were to vs all that doo’t, and ſuffer it / A brand to th’end a’th World. / [Lucius] Sicin[ius Vellutus]. This is cleane kamme. / [Junius] Brut[us]. Meerely awry: / When he did loue his Country, it honour’d him."
- "Notice that a wandering set has empty intersection with the set of KAM tori […]"
Etymology
From Welsh cam (“bent, crooked, distorted”), from Middle Welsh cam, from Old Welsh cam, from Proto-Brythonic *kam, from Proto-Celtic *kambos. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic cam, Irish cam, French camus (“flat-nosed”) and more distantly Ancient Greek σκαμβός (skambós, “crooked, bent, bow-legged”). Doublet of camous.