Sam

Meanings

1. A diminutive of the male given names Samuel or Samson.
2. A diminutive of the female given name Samantha.
3. A surname from Cantonese, a romanization of 岑 (sam⁴) or 沈 (cam⁴ / zam³).
4. A town in Alibori department, Benin.
5. A town in Boulkiemdé, Burkina Faso.
6. A town in Bourzanga department, Bam, Burkina Faso.
7. A village in Kongoussi department, Bam, Burkina Faso.
8. A Trans-New Guinea language of Papua New Guinea.
9. A surname from Khmer
10. The Sam Maguire Cup awarded to the All-Ireland GAA football winning team.

1. Synonym of Dicky Sam (“a man from Liverpool”)

1. To assemble.
2. To bring together; join (in marriage, friendship, love, etc.).
3. To bring together; collect; put in order; arrange.
4. To assemble; come together.
5. To coagulate; curdle (milk).

1. Together

1. Half or imperfectly done.
2. Half-heated.

1. Federal narcotics agent.

1. Acronym of Sample Analysis at Mars (a scientific instrument of the Mars Science Laboratory on board the Curiosity rover on Mars.)

1. Initialism of surface-to-air missile.
2. Initialism of self-assembled monolayer.
3. Initialism of systolic anterior motion.
4. Initialism of single abstract method.
5. Initialism of split attraction model.
6. Initialism of shared appreciation mortgage.
7. Initialism of smartass masochist; a brat.

Etymology

From Middle English sammen, samnen, from Old English samnian, ġesamnian (“to collect, assemble, bring together, gather, join, unite, compose, meet, glean”), from Proto-West Germanic *samnōn, from Proto-Germanic *samnōną (“to gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one”). Cognate with Dutch zamelen (“to collect”), German sammeln (“to collect, gather”), Swedish samla (“to gather, collect”), Icelandic samna (“to gather, collect”). More at same.