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warm

Pronunciation: /wɔːm/

The English word “warm” has 20 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.
  2. Friendly and with affection.
  3. Having a color in the part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum between red and yellow-green.
  4. Close to a goal or correct answer.
  5. Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
  6. Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness.
  7. Ardent, zealous.
  8. Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous.
  9. Requiring arduous effort.

verb

  1. To make or keep warm.
  2. To become warm, to heat up.
  3. (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly.
  4. To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly.
  5. To become ardent or animated.
  6. To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
  7. To give emotional warmth to a person.
  8. To beat or spank.
  9. To scold or abuse verbally.
  10. To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.
  11. To send electronic mail from (a domain) to improve its reputation for mail sending.

Etymology

From Middle English warm, werm, from Old English wearm, from Proto-West Germanic *warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz, from one of: * Proto-Indo-European *wór-mo-s, from *wer- (“to burn”), which is related to Hittite 𒉿𒊏𒀀𒉌 (warāni, “to burn”), Armenian վառել (vaṙel, “to burn, heat, warm”), Old Church Slavonic варити (variti, “to cook, boil”). * Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰor-mo-s, from the root *gʷʰer-…

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