tom

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɒm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tɑm/

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• Rhymes: -ɒm

From generic use of the proper name Tom.

tom (plural toms)

1. The male of the domesticated cat.
2. The male of the turkey.
3. The male of the orangutan.
4. The male of certain other animals.
5. (Britain, slang) prostitutes
6. (US, slang) A lesbian.
7. (music) Clipping of tom-tom.
8. (obsolete) The jack of trumps in the card game gleek.

• (male cat): tomcat, he-cat
• (male turkey): turkey-cock
• (male of other animals): male
• (prostitute): See also Thesaurus:prostitute

Shortened from tomato

tom (plural toms)

1. (Britain, greengrocers' slang) A tomato (the fruit).

   Toms 90p a pound

Rhyming slang from tomfoolery.

tom (uncountable)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) jewellery

From Uncle Tom.

tom (third-person singular simple present toms, present participle tomming, simple past and past participle tommed)

1. (intransitive, derogatory, of a black person) To act in an obsequiously servile manner toward white authority.

tom (third-person singular simple present toms, present participle tomming, simple past and past participle tommed)

1. (nautical) To dig out a hole below the hatch cover of a bulker and fill it with cargo or weights to aid stability.

• MOT, Mot, OMT, OTM, TMO, mot

From Old Norse tómr.

• IPA^(key): /tɔm/, [tˢʌmˀ]

tom

1. empty

• “tom” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Irish tom (“bush, tuft; hillock, knoll”).

• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠuːmˠ/

tom m (genitive singular toim, nominative plural toim or tomacha)

1. bush, shrub

   Synonym: tor

2. clump, tuft, tussock

• Alternative plural: tomacha (Cois Fharraige)

• tomach (“bushy; tufted”)

tom m (genitive singular toma, nominative plural tomanna)

1. Alternative form of taom (“fit, paroxysm”)

tom (present analytic tomann, future analytic tomfaidh, verbal noun tomadh, past participle tomtha)

1. Alternative form of tum (“dip, immerse”)

• IPA^(key): [tɔm]

tom

1. locative masculine singular of ten
2. locative neuter singular of ten

From Old Norse tómr

tom (neuter singular tomt, definite singular and plural tomme, comparative tommere, indefinite superlative tommest, definite superlative tommeste)

1. empty

• halvtom
• tomhet

• tømme

• “tom” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse tómr

• IPA^(key): /tʊmː/

tom (neuter singular tomt, definite singular and plural tomme, comparative tommare, indefinite superlative tommast, definite superlative tommaste)

1. empty

• halvtom

• tømme, tømma

• “tom” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

tom

1. water

• Robyn Loughnane, A Grammar of Oksapmin (April 2009), page 58

From Proto-Germanic *tōmaz (“empty”). Akin to Old Norse tómr (“empty”), whence Icelandic tómur (“empty”).

tōm

1. empty
2. (figuratively) free from

• Middle English: tome
  • English: toom

• IPA^(key): [t̪ɔ̃m]

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tom m inan

1. volume (single book of a publication issued in multi-book format)

Probably a semi-learned borrowing from Latin tonus (and influenced by som; compare the Spanish ton, variant of the standard tono, which underwent a similar change, influenced by son, respectively), from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “tone”), from τείνω (teínō, “I stretch”). Cf. also trom, a possible doublet.

• IPA^(key): /tõ/
• Hyphenation: tom
• Rhymes: -õ

tom m (plural tons)

1. tone or pitch (property of sound determined by the frequency)
2. (music) tone (interval of a major second)
3. (music) key.

• trom

• IPA^(key): /t̪ʰɔum/

tom m (genitive singular tuim, plural toman or tomannan)

1. round hillock or knoll, rising ground, swell, green eminence
2. any round heap
3. tuft of anything
4. bush, thicket
5. anthill
6. (Islay) stool
7. volume of a book
8. bank
9. grave
10. (medicine, rare) the plague
11. conical knoll

• IPA^(key): /ˈtóːm/
• Tonal orthography: tọ̑m

tóm m inan (genitive tóma, nominative plural tómi)

1. tome

• zvézek

From Old Norse tómr.

• (Swedish) IPA^(key): /tum/

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tom

1. empty

   tomma tunnor skramlar mest

   empty barrels make the most noise (those who complain most vigorously, are the least important)

• full

Used in Swedish since 1697. From French tome, Latin tomus (“section of larger work”), from Ancient Greek τόμος (tómos, “section, roll of papyrus, volume”), from τέμνω (témnō, “I cut, separate”). Cognate with English tome.

• (Swedish) IPA^(key): /toːm/

tom c

1. a tome, a volume in a series of books, a (thick) book

• tomtals

• tom in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
• tom in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.

tom

1. Second person singular possessive (medial position)

   your

2. Second person singular object

   you

• to'
• tomma