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ami

ami is the clipping of amigurumi.

Meaning of amigurumi

Noun

amigurumi (countable and uncountable, plural amigurumi)

  1. (uncountable) The Japanese art of crocheting or knitting stuffed yarn toys, typically creatures having oversized heads.
    • Noa has been mostly homeschooled, and is poised to graduate high school in this "severely" rural area. She has a self-described "yarn addiction" (does astounding lace work, Amigurumi, and other yarn art), and wants to learn how to work in glass, after graduation.2014 October 28, Christopher Langley, “Artbound: Jael Hoffmann: High Desert Sculptor of Internal Landscapes”, in KCET, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2018
  2. (countable) Such a stuffed toy crocheted or knitted from yarn.
    • Pip Lincolne, owner of Meet Me At Mike's in Fitzroy, stocks cutesy, Japanese-style knitted or crochet toys, known as amigurumi. "When we started Mike's, we wanted to sell the things that we loved, which happened to be things with a childlike or nostalgic theme through them," she says. "We wanted to...2008 April 20, Rachelle Unreich, “The play’s the thing”, in The Age, Melbourne, Vic., archived from the original on 02 Nov 2018

Noun capitalized: AMI

AMI (plural AMIs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of acute myocardial infarction.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of agonist-antagonist myoneural interface.
    1. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of AMI amputation.
  3. (US, abbreviation, initialism, public policy) Initialism of area median income.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: AMI

AMI

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of American Media Inc..
    • As Bezos describes it, AMI threatened to publish the photos if Bezos failed to make a public statement that he had “no knowledge or basis for suggesting that AMI’s coverage was politically motivated or influenced by political forces.”2019 February 11, Quinta Jurecic, “A Turning Point for Sextortion”, in The Atlantic

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Ami

Ami

  1. A town in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.

Forms of ami

pluralamis
pluralAMIs

Origin of ami

From a clipping of amigurumi, itself from Japanese 編み包み (amigurumi).

Phrases with ami

Questions about ami

What does ami mean?
Ami means a town in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
What is ami the clipping of?
Ami is the clipping of amigurumi.
What part of speech is ami?
Ami can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of ami?
The plural of ami is amis.

Words near ami in the dictionary

  1. Amherstonian
  2. Amherstonians
  3. Amhersts
  4. amhoretz
  5. AMHS
  6. ami
  7. ami-momi
  8. amia
  9. amiabilities
  10. amiability
  11. amiable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ami (page history and authors); AMI (page history and authors); Ami (page history and authors); amigurumi (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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