aam
UK/ɑːm//ɑm/
aam noun: a Dutch and German measure of liquids, used in England for Rhine wine, varying in different cities, being in Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, in Antwerp 36½, and in Hamburg 38¼.
Noun (1)
aam (plural aams)
Noun (2) capitalized: AAM
AAM (plural AAMs)
- Initialism of Alliance for Audited Media.
- Initialism of air-to-air missile.
- Initialism of adult-attracted minor (see usage notes on MAP).
- Coordinate term: MAP
- One user appeared to be selling child sexual abuse material, writing "Sixteen is a cool number" and "Sells to anyone" alongside a Wickr handle and the acronyms "map" and "aam," which stand for minor-attracted-person and adult-attracted-minor respectively.2022 June 10, Ben Goggin, “Wickr, Amazon’s encrypted chat app, has a child sex abuse problem — and little is being done to stop it”, in NBC News
Forms of aam
| plural | aams |
|---|---|
| alternative form | aum |
| alternative form | awm |
| plural | AAMs |
Origin of aam
Borrowed from Dutch aam, from Latin ama, a variant of hama, from Ancient Greek ἄμη (ámē, “bucket”).
Words formed from aam
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Questions about aam
- What does aam mean?
- Aam means a Dutch and German measure of liquids, used in England for Rhine wine, varying in different cities, being in Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, in Antwerp 36½, and in Hamburg 38¼.
- What part of speech is aam?
- Aam is a noun.
- How do you pronounce aam?
- Aam is pronounced /ɑːm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of aam?
- The plural of aam is aams.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: aam (page history and authors); AAM (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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