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Lyme¹

Where it comes from

All three towns are named after Lyme Regis in Dorset, England.

proper noun

  1. A surname.
  2. A town in New London County, Connecticut, United States.
  3. A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.
  4. A town in Jefferson County, New York, United States.
  5. Synonym of Forest of Lyme, mainly in Staffordshire, England

    Similar: Forest of Lyme, mainly in Staffordshire, England

noun

  1. informal, uncountable Lyme disease. Statewide there was a 16 percent increase in Lyme cases from 7,543 in 2016 to 8,720 last year.

lyme²

verb lymes · lyming · lymed

  1. Jamaica, slang to hang out (to spend time doing nothing in particular) But everyday,^([sic]) while all of this was going on, there'd be some lyming (hanging out)—and this is how the spirit of the music was absorbed, how apprentices both learned and caught on.

LYME³

proper noun

  1. A solution stack consisting of the Linux operating system, Yaws web server, Mnesia database, and Erlang programming language.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: newcastle, nemo, carditis, regis, ledyard, groton, new london, lebanon, montville, litchfield, stonington, norfolk, preston, plymouth, tolland, niantic

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"lyme." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/lyme. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

lyme. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/lyme

Chicago

"lyme." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/lyme.

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@misc{lyme_2026,
  title = {lyme},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lyme},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}