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grames

grames is the third-person singular simple present indicative of grame.

Meaning of grame

Verb

grame (third-person singular simple present grames, present participle graming, simple past and past participle gramed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.
    • Men may leave all games, / That sailën to St James; / For many a man it grames / When they begin to sail.
      For when they have take the sea, / At Sandwich, or at Winchelsea, / At Bristol, or where that it may be, / Their hearts begin to fail.1888, Henry Macaulay Fitzgibbon, Early English and Scottish Poetry, 1250-1600, page 235
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To grieve; to be sorry; to fret; to be vexed or displeased.
    • The crane and the curlewe thereat gan to grame.1526, John Skelton, Magnyfycence, published 1864

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Proper noun capitalized: Grames

Grames (plural Grameses)

  1. A surname from German.

Forms of grames

pluralGrameses

Origin of grames

Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Grammes.

Questions about grames

What does grames mean?
Grames means a surname from German.
What is grames the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Grames is the third-person singular simple present indicative of grame.
What part of speech is grames?
Grames is a proper noun.

Words near grames in the dictionary

  1. Gramer
  2. gramercies
  3. gramercy
  4. Gramercy Park
  5. Gramers
  6. grames
  7. Grameses
  8. Gramian
  9. gramicidin
  10. gramicidins
  11. graminaceous

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