elm
/ɛlm/
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dialectal/ˈɛləm/
elm noun: a tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.
Noun
elm (countable and uncountable, plural elms)
- A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.
- It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the...1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC
- The village is a dignified place of thatch, half-timbering, box hedges and neat farms, set among elms (though not as many as formerly, since Dutch elm disease took its toll) on the level plain of the Pewsey Vale.1980, AA Book of English Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 67
- Synonyms:
- elven
- Wood from an elm tree.
- English soldiers handled sturdy bows of yew, ash, or elm, which could propel an iron-tipped arrow as far as a hundred yards.1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 155
Proper noun capitalized: Elm
Elm
- A village and civil parish in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF4706).
- An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Missouri, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- A village in Glarus canton, Switzerland.
- A surname.
- A functional programming language for creating web applications.
- Elm as a language can be seen from different angles. The main purpose of the language and the platform is to create web applications.2018, Wolfgang Loder, Web Applications with Elm […] , Apress, →ISBN, page 42
elm meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
elm in Hindi
- एल्म
elm in Tamil
- எல்ம்
elm in Marathi
- एल्म
elm in Urdu
- ایلم
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- elm in Bengali
- এলম, এল্ম
- elm in Telugu
- ఎల్మ్
- elm in Malayalam
- എൽം
- elm in Kannada
- ಎಲ್ಮ್
- elm in Punjabi
- ਐਲਮ
- elm in Gujarati
- એલ્મ
- elm in Odia
- ଏଲ୍ମ୍, ଏଲ୍ମ
- elm in Nepali
- एल्म, एल्म्
- elm in Tagalog
- olmo
- elm in Arabic
- دَرْدَار dardār, بُوقِيصَا būqīṣā
- elm in Malay
- elm
- elm in Persian
- نارون nârvan
- Kashmiri
- برَٛن bran
Examples of elm in a sentence
- This elm tree rises to a height of seventy feet.
- F3 is situated on slightly higher ground, and is dominated by European white elm.
- There are remnants of a stonewall at the elm tree on Burrough Road.
Synonyms of elm
Forms of elm
| plural | elms |
|---|---|
| alternative pronunciation-spelling | ellum |
Origin of elm
From Middle English elme, elm, from Old English elm, from Proto-West Germanic *elm, from Proto-Germanic *elmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élem (“mountain elm”). See also dialectal Low German Elm, dialectal German Ilm, archaic German Ilme, Norwegian and Swedish alm; also Irish leamh, Latin ulmus, Albanian ulzë (“maple”).
Words formed from elm
- American elm
- Atinian elm
- bastard elm
- Camperdown elm
- Caucasian elm
- cedar elm
- cherry bark elm
- chestnut-leafed elm
- Chinese elm
- common elm
- cork elm
- Cornish elm
- cutleaf elm
- Dutch elm disease
- Dutch elm
- elm bark beetle
- elm beetle
- elm borer
- elmen
- Elmhurst
- elm-leaf beetle
- elmlike
- elmness
- Elm Park
- elm sawfly
- Elmsdale
- elm tree
- Elmwood
- elmy
- elm yellows
- English cork elm
- English elm
- European field elm
- European white elm
- field elm
- fluttering elm
- Great Elm
- Guernsey elm
- hickory elm
- Huntingdon elm
- Japanese elm
- Jersey elm
- lacebark elm
- lobed elm
- long raceme elm
- Manchurian elm
- Mexican elm
- moose elm
- multi-nerved elm
- Nine Elms
- northern elm
- purple elm
- red elm
- rock elm
- Russian elm
- Scotch elm
- Scots elm
- September elm
- Siberian elm
- slippery elm
Phrases with elm
- soft elm
- wych elm
- yoke elm
- elm trees
- witch elm
- elm beetles
- Spanish elm
- stately elm
- elm sawflies
- Wheatley elm
- spreading elm
- Southampton elm
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Words that rhyme with elm
Questions about elm
- What does elm mean?
- Elm means a tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.
- What is elm in Hindi?
- Elm in Hindi is एल्म. See Elm meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is elm?
- Elm can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce elm?
- Elm is pronounced /ɛlm/.
- What is the plural of elm?
- The plural of elm is elms.
Words near elm in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: elm (page history and authors); Elm (page history and authors); elm (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); elm (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); elm (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); elm (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); elm (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); elm (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); elm (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); elm (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); elm (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); elm (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); elm (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); elm (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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