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hm

hm interjection: a shorter variant of hmm. Also the initialism of how much.

Interjection

  1. A shorter variant of hmm.

Pronoun capitalized: HM

HM

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of His Majesty (the title of a king).
    • Holonyms: Their Royal Majesties, Majesties
    • Near-synonyms: HRM, His Royal Majesty
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Her Majesty (the title of a queen).
    • Holonyms: Their Royal Majesties, Majesties
    • Near-synonyms: HRM, Her Royal Majesty

Noun capitalized: HM

HM (plural HMs)

  1. (India, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Home Minister.
  2. (US, abbreviation) Abbreviation of hospital corpsman.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of heavy metal.
    • When girls appropriate a male-dominated form like HM, can they discard its sexist content without replacing it with something else?1982 April 24, “Women of Iron”, in Gay Community News, page 10
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of hidden machine
    • For any obstacle in the way, HMs such as Cut and Strength must be taught to one of the six Pokémon in the trainer's party. […] Relicanth is a relatively unsurprising inclusion. It fulfills the ideal requirements for an HM mule in that it can learn four HMs: Surf, Waterfall, Dive, and Rock Smash....2023 March 12, Quinton O'Connor, “Pokemon Emerald: The 16 Best Hoenn HM Mules”, in TheGamer

Proper noun capitalized: HM

HM

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Hindley-Milner.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Hannah Montana, an American teen sitcom that aired from 2006 to 2011.
    • She [Millie Bobby Brown] then demonstrated how she eventually started slipping in and out of an American accent as a by-product of her HM marathons (and fair warning, it’s so seamless that it’s a little jarring).2022 May 15, Kayleigh Roberts, “Millie Bobby Brown Does a Spot-On Anna Delvey Impression That You *Must* Hear”, in Cosmopolitan

Also used as

hm is also the initialism of how much.

hm meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Punjabi

hm in Urdu

ایچ ایم

hm in Bengali

এইচএম

hm in Malayalam

എച്ച്എം

hm in Punjabi

ਐੱਚ ਐੱਮ
More languagesFewer languages
hm in Gujarati
એચએમ

Synonyms of hm

Forms of hm

Pronoun
alternative formH.M.
alternative formH. M.
Noun
pluralHMs

Origin of hm

(Pokémon): Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ひでんマシン (Hiden Mashin, “Secret Machine”).

Words formed from hm

Phrases with hm

Questions about hm

What does hm mean?
Hm means a shorter variant of hmm.
What is hm in Urdu?
Hm in Urdu is ایچ ایم. See Hm meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is hm?
Hm can be an interjection, a pronoun, a noun or a proper noun.

Words near hm in the dictionary

  1. Hlukhiv
  2. Hlushytsia
  3. HLX
  4. Hlyboke
  5. Hlyniany
  6. hm
  7. HM Government
  8. HM mule
  9. HM mules
  10. HM slave
  11. HM slaves

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hm (page history and authors); HM (page history and authors); hm (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hm (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hm (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hm (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hm (Gujarati, 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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