Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. First person singular present indicative of be.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- n. metrology Symbol for the attometer (attometre), an SI unit of length equal to 10−18 meters (metres).
- v. First-person singular simple present indicative form of be.
- abbr. alternative spelling of a.m..
GNU Webster's 1913
- The first person singular of the verb
be , in the indicative mode, present tense. See be.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a master's degree in arts and sciences
- n. a radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding uranium with helium atoms
- n. modulation of the amplitude of the (radio) carrier wave
Etymologies
- From Middle English am, em, from Old English eam, eom ("am"), from Proto-Germanic *immi, *izmi (“am”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi (“I am, I exist”), a form of the verb *wesanan. Cognate with Old Norse em, emi ("am"), Gothic 𐌹𐌼 (im, "am"), Ancient Greek εἰμί (eimi), Albanian jam ("I am"), Sanskrit अस्मि (ásmi). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English eom; see es- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“‘I am not as good a man as my father was and my son is growing up worse than I am’.433”
“Very best wishes am sure you did fine..am away on retreat with the Brigittines in Holywell & then Iver Heath..but I love MV!”
“Who knows; maybe I am *am* being unreasonable here.”
“I am new to your blog and after coming here once..am not able to stop coming again and again.”
“I'm inclined lately to start whining about SGA again, but I am aware exactly how much that kind of thing annoys people who *are* feeling good about life, the fandom, and everything, so I'm thinking I might lock everything down so as not to be that crushing killjoy that nobody likes well, so as to keep it somewhat under wraps that I *am* that crushing killjoy that nobody likes.”
“I am not at all worried about the future of the planet, but I * am* worried about the future of the human race.”
“I am not trying to frighten people, but I *am* personally feeling very frightened, especially this week and I suppose I am looking for reassurrance from people who are not dealing with fear symptoms: the tube really spooked me this week, then the news - ID cards, Anti terror laws, etc...”
“ I think it is key to who I am and where I currently am . emotionally.”
“I do want protection from someone mistreating me because I am what I am ”
“I _am_ a research supervisor with the Bureau of Standards, and I am here for a definite purpose.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘am’.
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EN - Glasgow stop list
Words to be replaced by a paragraph mark if you are after terms and MWEs.
yours, yourself, yet, your, without, you, within, will, yourselves, would, why, with and 291 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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zzyyxx's Words
plethora, drout, functional, rye, wring, doubt, cognative, weird, gnaw, surcease, rend, languish and 438 more...
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Chemical Element Abbreviations
Name Sym # Wt
actinium Ac 89 (227)
aluminum Al 13 26.98
americium Am 95 (243)
antimony Sb 51 121.7
argon Ar 18 39.94
arsenic As 33 74.92
asta...zr, zn, yb, y, xe, w, v, uuu, uut, uus, uuq, uup and 108 more...
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State-of-being verbs
Verbs that establish or connect to the status (condition, state of being, the way something is) of someone or something.
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Acceptable two-letter Scrabble words
aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as and 89 more...
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aparrish's Words
the, this, and, a, that, i, me, you, him, her, she, he and 96 more...
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I Live a (SOWPODS) Hardscrabble Life
aa, ad, ae, ah, ai, am, an, ar, as, at, aw, ax and 168 more...
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Bigrams
Two-letter words that are common. For a full list of all possible 2-letter words, check out this list.
my, by, ay, ax, ew, aw, ix, it, at, is, as, ox and 39 more...
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2 Letter Scrabble Words
All playable 2 letter Scrabble words from OSPD4
aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as and 87 more...
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Abbreviate
Is there a name for this type of word?
expediency, obediency, eminency, enemy, arrestee, escapee, ogee, beady, essay, effigy, elegy, tennessee and 59 more...
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Really Cool Two-Letter Words
Tight but full of might.
id, ox, or, am, ho, pi, om, ur, xi, ad, ai, mu and 14 more...
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etymons
source words - to the core
etymon, entity, ontology, essence, biont, am, is, yes, present, sooth, soothe, sin and 11 more...
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OSPD4 two-letter words
za, ye, ya, xu, xi, wo, we, ut, us, up, un, um and 88 more...
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Benladen's Words
phallocentric, disproportionate, bewave, distraught, uncoordinated, disgraceful, bewayne, beweltered, sensical, cunt, extrapolate, dysphoria and 86 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for am.
Telofy See amn't. Dec 26, 2008
bilby Am not. Dec 26, 2008
uselessness Also, Ante Meridiem (the period between midnight and noon) and Amplitude Modulation (one of two standard techniques for transmitting information via radio waves). Dec 17, 2007
oroboros Am. Chemical element symbol for Americium. Dec 15, 2007