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nam¹

  • /næm/

Rhymes with -æm

verb

  1. past simple past of nim

Nam²

Rhymes with -æm

proper noun 'Nam · 'nam

  1. abbreviation, clipping, informal Clipping of Vietnam
  2. historical, informal The Vietnam War.

Nam³

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Korean 남(南) (Nam).

proper noun Nams · 'Nam · 'nam

  1. A surname from Korean.

NAM⁴

noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of Native American myopathy

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Non-Aligned Movement

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: denotative, appellative, denotive, designation, assignment, appointment, viet, vietnamese, vietnam, yugoslavian, yugoslav, yugoslavia, nanjing, southern, southward, southbound

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

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

Chicago

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

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@misc{nam_2026,
  title = {nam},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nam},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}