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pam¹

  • /pæm/

Rhymes with -æm

Where it comes from

Probably short for French Pamphile (“a given name”), special use of man's name.

noun pams

  1. countable, uncountable The jack of clubs in loo played with hands of 5 cards.
  2. uncountable A card game, similar to napoleon, in which the jack of clubs is the highest trump.

pam²

  • /pæm/

Rhymes with -æm

Where it comes from

Probably alteration of panorama.

noun pams

  1. dated A panorama. The tripod used on a pam prevents any of that disturbing vertical shake which is so obvious in hand-held slow pams.

verb pams · pamming · pammed

  1. dated To pan a camera in order to show a panorama. In this case the field was laid out in segments, and after the camera had been pammed about ten degrees it was stopped and the whole outfit moved over into the next segment, and so on round for ninety degrees;

pam³

  • /pæm/

Rhymes with -æm

Where it comes from

Generic use of PAM.

noun

  1. US Cooking spray.

pam⁴

  • /pæm/

Rhymes with -æm

Where it comes from

From Spanish palmo (“handspan”), from Latin palmus. Doublet of palm, palma, and palmo.

noun pams

  1. alternative, dated, historical Alternative form of palmo (“traditional Spanish and Portuguese units of measure”).

Pam⁵

Rhymes with -æm

Where it comes from

Clipping.

proper noun

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Pamela. The Senate voted Tuesday night to confirm Pam Bondi as attorney general, making the tenacious litigator the latest official to help fill out President Donald Trump’s administration.
  2. UK, historical, slang Nickname for Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston. In October 1865, the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, died in office two days before his 81st birthday. 'Old Pam' had been a member of every government since 1807, […]

PAM⁶

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, historical, initialism Initialism of Policy Analysis Market

noun PAMs

  1. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of power amplitude modulation
  2. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of pluggable authentication module
  3. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis
  4. abbreviation, acronym, countable, uncountable Acronym of payload assist module
  5. abbreviation, acronym, countable, uncountable Acronym of polycatenated architected material

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: maa, pop, pow, pga, apm, mpa, wfp, linux, fm, mip, cpn, gpa, msp, cap, npp, map

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

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Chicago

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

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@misc{pam_2026,
  title = {pam},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pam},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}