Kims
Kims is the plural of Kim.
Meaning of Kim
Proper noun (1)
Kim (plural Kims)
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara...1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter I, in Kim, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 1
- A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1940s and later usage.
- Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. […] It is no secret that the absurd monosyllable which comprises her given name is made up of the first letters of three states — Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri — in all of which she was, incredibly...1926, Edna Ferber, Show Boat, Doubleday, Page & Co, page 1
Proper noun (2)
Kim (plural Kims)
- A surname from Korean.
- Centring on the tension between the Kims, a basement-dwelling family of “dirt spoons” in Seoul, and the Parks, a family at the opposite end of the social spectrum, Parasite’s plot is predicated on the widening gap between the haves and the have nots in Asia’s fourth-biggest economy. […] “My husband...2020 February 16, Justin McCurry, Nemo Kim, “Parasite: how Oscar triumph has exposed South Korea’s social divide”, in The Observer, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2022
Proper noun (3)
Kim
Questions about Kims
- What is Kims the plural of?
- Kims is the plural of Kim.
Words near Kims in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kims (page history and authors); Kim (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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