English Explanatory Dictionary

toom

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Empty; bare.
noun
  1. A piece of waste ground where rubbish is deposited.
verb
  1. To empty; teem.
noun
  1. Vacant time, leisure.

Word forms

toom more toom most toom tooms tooming toomed

Etymology

From Middle English toom, tom, from Old English tōm (“empty”), from Proto-West Germanic *tōm(ī), from Proto-Germanic *tōm(ij)az (“free, available, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *doma- (“to tame”), *dema- (“to build”). Cognate with Danish and Swedish tom (“empty, vacant”), Icelandic tómur (“empty”).

Synonyms

vacant void empty empty as a pauper's purse empty as the tomb on Easter clean leer toom unfilled vacuumlike vacuous

Derived words

toom-handed toomly
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