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DM

DM noun: adamsite, diphenylaminechlorarsine. Also the initialism of dimensional modeling.

Noun

DM (countable and uncountable, plural DMs)

  1. adamsite, diphenylaminechlorarsine
  2. driving motor car
  3. (colloquial) A Dr. Martens boot or shoe.
    • She kicked a hardback book with her left DM boot (14 eyelets were the minimum she would settle for), but the bestseller persisted in her path.2012, W. Freedreamer Tinkanesh, Outsider, page 19

Verb

DM (third-person singular simple present DMs, present participle DMing, simple past and past participle DMed or DM'd)

  1. (Internet, transitive) To communicate by direct message, usually on a social media website.
    • Rio [Ferdinand] DM’d me after the tournament. He’d said I was the weak link, and that Croatia should be targeting me.2021 August 2, Tyrone Mings, quotee, “Tyrone Mings Opens Up over Mental Health Struggles ahead of Euro 2020”, in Yahoo! Sports, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2021
  2. (roleplaying games) To dungeon master; to perform as a dungeon master; to run a tabletop role-playing game.
    Synonyms:
    GM

Also used as

DM is also the initialism of dimensional modeling.

DM is also the initialism of De Morgan’s law.

DM is also the initialism of Deutsche Mark.

DM is also the initialism of dry matter.

DM is also the initialism of diabetes mellitus.

DM is also the initialism of dermatomyositis.

Synonyms of DM

Forms of DM

Noun
pluralDMs
Verb
third-person singular presentDMs
present participleDMing
past participleDMed
pastDMed
past participleDM'd
pastDM'd

Words formed from DM

Questions about DM

What does DM mean?
DM means adamsite, diphenylaminechlorarsine.
What part of speech is DM?
DM can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of DM?
The plural of DM is DMs.

Words near DM in the dictionary

  1. DLV
  2. DLVO theory
  3. dlvy
  4. dlvy.
  5. DLX
  6. DM
  7. DM'd
  8. DM-OPEN
  9. DM;HS
  10. DMA
  11. DMAB

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Adapted from Wiktionary: DM (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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