English Explanatory Dictionary

kam

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Crooked, awry.
noun
  1. Initialism of key account manager, an account manager with overall responsibility for a customer relationship.
name
  1. Initialism of Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem.

Word forms

kam KAMs

Etymology

From Welsh cam (“bent, crooked, distorted”), from Middle Welsh cam, from Old Welsh cam, from Proto-Brythonic *kam, from Proto-Celtic *kambos. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic cam, Irish cam, French camus (“flat-nosed”) and more distantly Ancient Greek σκαμβός (skambós, “crooked, bent, bow-legged”). Doublet of camous.

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