English Explanatory Dictionary

tom

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The male of the domesticated cat, especially if not neutered.
  2. The male of the turkey.
  3. The male of the orangutan.
  4. The male of certain other animals.
  5. A female prostitute.
  6. A lesbian.
  7. Clipping of tom-tom.
  8. The jack of trumps in the card game gleek.
  9. A close-stool.
noun
  1. A tomato (the fruit).
noun
  1. jewellery
verb
  1. To act in an obsequiously servile manner toward white authority.
verb
  1. To dig out a hole below the hatch cover of a bulker and fill it with cargo or weights to aid stability.
name
  1. A diminutive of the male given name Thomas, also used as a formal male given name.
  2. A nickname for a common man.
noun
  1. Ellipsis of Uncle Tom.
  2. A United States two-dollar bill.
noun
  1. Synonym of menstruation.
name
  1. A large, deep-toned bell, or a particularly notable example of one.
noun
  1. Acronym of time of the month.
  2. Acronym of Translocon on Outer Membrane.
noun
  1. Initialism of theory of mind.

Pronunciation

/tɒm/ /tɑm/ en-us-tom.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Tom.wav

Word forms

tom toms tomming tommed

Etymology

From generic use of the proper name Tom.

Synonyms

tomcat he-cat turkeycock male buck stag Jefferson Thomas Jefferson menstruation

Related words

bottle-tom chao tom peeping tom plum tom tom boy tom cat tom-cat tom kha tom kha gai tom kha kai tom tit tom-tom drum tom-tom drummer tom-tommer tom yam tom yum whip-tom-kelly tom-tom

Derived words

tomboy tomcat tomfool tom-kitten tomling tomtit tom-tit peeping tom Poor Tom tom Tom and Jerryish Tom, Dick or Harry tomfoolery Tom Green County Tom Groggin tomjohn Tommy tomnoddy Tom of Bedlam Tom of Bedlam's man Toms Creek Toms River Tom Tiddler's ground Tom Tug Uncle Tom curse of Tom

Translations

Arabic: قِطّ Arabic: قطو Arabic: عتوي Assamese: বোন্দা Asturian: gatu Belarusian: кот Breton: targazh Bulgarian: котара́к Burmese: ကြောင်ထီး Catalan: gat Chinese Mandarin: 郎貓 /郎猫 Crimean Tatar: pardoş Czech: kocour Danish: hankat Dutch: kater Dutch: mannetjeskat Esperanto: virkato Esperanto: katiĉo Fijian: pusi Finnish: kolli Finnish: uroskissa Finnish: tom Finnish: tomi French: matou French: chat West-Frisian: boarre German: Kater German: Katzenmännchen German: männliche Katze German: Kätzerich Greek: γάτος Greek: κεραμιδόγατος Greek: αλητόγατος Hausa: mùzūrū Hindi: बिल्ला Hungarian: kandúr Icelandic: högni Ido: katulo Ingrian: kullikasi Interlingua: catto Irish: fearchat Italian: gatto Jamaican Creole: ram puss Jamaican Creole: man puss Japanese: 雄猫 Kashmiri: برٛور Kashmiri: بیٛور Khmer: សត្វឆ្មាបា Khmer: ឆ្មាបា Korean: 수고양이 Lao: ແມວຜູ້ Latvian: runcis Macedonian: мачор Malay: kucing jantan Malayalam: കണ്ടൻപൂച്ച Māori: tame
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on T Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary