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English

Alternative forms

• gramme (dated, chiefly British)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æm/
• Rhymes: -æm
• Homophone: graham (GenAm)

Etymology 1

From French gramme, from Ancient Greek ?????? (grámma, “a small weight, a scruple”). Doublet of gramma.

Noun

gram (plural grams)

1. A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g.

Translations

See also

• kilogram
• milligram
• List of SI units

Etymology 2

From obsolete Portuguese gram (modern Portuguese grão), from Latin gr?num. Doublet of grain.

Noun

gram (uncountable)

1. A leguminous plant grown for its seeds, especially the chickpea.
2. (uncountable) The seeds of these plants.

Derived terms

• Bengal gram
• gram flour

Translations

Etymology 3

Diminutive of grandmother.

Noun

gram (plural grams)

1. Grandmother.

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???e?m/, /???æm/

Noun

gram (uncountable)

1. (US) Misspelling of graham.

Etymology 6

Clipping of Instagram.

Noun

gram (plural grams)

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of 'gram

References

Further reading

• gram on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• gram (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• MAgr, marg

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /???am/

Etymology 1

From French gramme.

Noun

gram m (plural grams)

1. gram (unit of mass)

Etymology 2

From Latin gr?men. Previously applied to grasses in general but now restricted to a few specific species.

Noun

gram m (plural grams)

1. Bermuda grass

Derived terms

• gram negre
• gramera
• gramós

Further reading

• “gram” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ram]
• Hyphenation: gram
• Rhymes: -am

Noun

gram m inan

1. gram (unit)

Declension

Derived terms

• miligram
• centigram
• decigram
• dekagram
• kilogram

Further reading

• gram in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• gram in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse gramr, cognates with the Icelandic gramur (“resentful, irritated”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ram/, [????m?]

Adjective

gram

1. irate

Inflection

Related terms

• gram i hu

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ?????? (grammá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ram/, [????m?]

Noun

gram n (singular definite grammet, plural indefinite gram)

1. gram (unit of mass)

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?m/
• Hyphenation: gram
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French gramme, a borrowing from Latin gramma during the French Revolution, from Ancient Greek ?????? (grámma).

Noun

gram n or m (plural grammen, diminutive grammetje n)

1. gram (unit of mass)

Derived terms

• centigram
• decagram
• decigram
• hectogram
• kilogram
• microgram
• milligram
• nanogram

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: gram

See also

• gewicht
• kilo

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch gram (“wrath”).

Adjective

gram (comparative grammer, superlative gramst)

1. (rare) angry, irate

Etymology 3

Substantivization of the adjective above.

Noun

gram m (uncountable, diminutive grammetje n)

1. (rare) wrath

See also

• gramschap
• toorn
• wrevel

German

Etymology

From Middle High German gram, from Old High German gram, from Proto-Germanic *gramaz.

Pronunciation

Adjective

gram (not comparable)

1. angry

Further reading

• “gram” in Duden online

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch gram, from French gramme, from Latin gramma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (grámma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ram]
• Hyphenation: gram

Noun

gram (first-person possessive gramku, second-person possessive grammu, third-person possessive gramnya)

1. gram: a unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g.

Further reading

• “gram” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Etymology

From French gramme, from Ancient Greek ?????? (grámma, “a small weight, a scruple”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????am?/

Noun

gram m (genitive singular graim, nominative plural graim)

1. gram (unit of mass)

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "gram" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *gram, from Proto-Germanic *gramaz.

Adjective

gram

1. angry
2. sad, upset

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: gram

Further reading

• “gram”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “gram (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Old English gram, from Proto-Germanic *gramaz; cognate to Old Norse gramr. Related to grim.

Adjective

gram

1. Angry.
   • c. 1300, Havelok the Dane:

     For he knew, the swike dam, / Euerildel God was him gram.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French gramme, from Ancient Greek ?????? (grámma)

Noun

gram n (definite singular grammet, indefinite plural gram, definite plural gramma or grammene)

1. a gram, unit of weight, symbol g.

Derived terms

• mikrogram

References

• “gram” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “gram_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French gramme, from Ancient Greek ?????? (grámma)

Noun

gram n (definite singular grammet, indefinite plural gram, definite plural gramma)

1. a gram, unit of weight, symbol g.

Derived terms

• mikrogram

References

• “gram” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gramaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?m/

Adjective

gram

1. angry, hostile

Declension

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French gramme, a borrowing from Latin gramma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (grámma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ram/

Etymology 1

Noun

gram m inan

1. gram (unit of mass)

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

gram

1. first-person singular present indicative of gra?

Further reading

• gram in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

gram m (plural grãos)

1. Obsolete spelling of grão

Descendants

• ? English: gram

Adjective

gram

1. Obsolete spelling of grão

Romanian

Etymology

From French gramme.

Noun

gram n (plural grame)

1. gram (unit of mass)

Declension

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From French gramme, from Ancient Greek ?????? (grámma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ram/

Noun

gram m (plural gramichean)

1. gram (unit of mass)

Mutation

Derived terms

• cileagram (“kilogram”)
• micreo-gram (“microgram”)

Related terms

• tunna (“tonne”)

References

• “gram” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from French gramme, a borrowing from Latin gramma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (grámma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?râm/

Noun

gr?m m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. gram (unit)

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

gram n

1. gram (unit of mass)

Tatar

Noun

gram

1. Latin spelling of ???? (gram, “gram (unit of mass)”)

Declension

Volapük

Noun

gram (nominative plural grams)

1. gram

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English dozen, dozein, doseyne, from Old French dozaine (“a group of twelve”), from doze (“twelve”) + -aine (“-ish”), from Latin duodecim (“twelve”) (from duo (“two”) + decem (“ten”)) + -ana (“-ish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?z?n/
• Rhymes: -?z?n

Noun

dozen (plural dozens or dozen)

1. A set of twelve.

   Can I have a dozen eggs, please?

   I ordered two dozen doughnuts.

   There shouldn't be more than two dozen Christmas cards left to write.

   Pack the shirts in dozens, please.

2. (as plural only, always followed by of) A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.

   There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.

   There were dozens and dozens of applicants before the job was posted.
3. (metallurgy) An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
   • 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 139

     The dozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Synonyms

• (followed by of: a large number of): a great deal of, a lot of, heaps of, hundreds of, loads of, lots of, many, millions of, scores of, scads of, thousands of

Antonyms

• (followed by of: a large number of): few

Abbreviations

• doz

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

• gross

Anagrams

• Donze, zendo, zoned

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?z?n

Noun

dozen

1. Plural form of doos

Anagrams

• zoden, zonde

Scots

Etymology

Related to doze.

Verb

dozen

1. (transitive) To stupefy.
2. (intransitive) To become stupefied.