palmy
UK/ˈpɑːmi//ˈpɑːmi/
palmy adjective: of, related to, or abounding in palm trees.
Adjective
palmy (comparative palmier, superlative palmiest)
- Of, related to, or abounding in palm trees.
- From Greenland’s icy mountains,
From India’s coral strand,
Where Afric’s sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand;
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver
Their land from error’s chain.1819, Reginald Heber, The Missionary Hymn
- From Greenland’s icy mountains,
- Prosperous, flourishing, booming or thriving.
- Elliston was, in his day, the Napoleon of Drury Lane; but, like the conqueror at Austerlitz, he suffered his declensions, and the Surrey became to him a Saint Helena. However, once an eagle always an eagle; and Robert William was no less aquiline in the day of adversity than in his palmy time of...1832, The London Spy, volume 2, page 292
- “It must have been just like the palmy days of the British Drama.”1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter IV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 73
- Made out of palm leaves or palm sap.
Proper noun capitalized: Palmy
Palmy
palmy meaning in Malayalam and Kannada
palmy in Malayalam
- fortunate, happy, glorious
- സൗഭാഗ്യ സമ്പൂർണ്ണമായ, സന്തുഷ്ടം, തൃപ്തം, ധന്യം, കൃതാർത്ഥം, സൗഭാഗ്യപ്രദം
palmy in Kannada
- ತಾಳೆಯ, ತಾಳೆಯಂಥ, ಏಳಿಗೆಯ, ಉತ್ಕರ್ಷದ
Examples of palmy in a sentence
- However, once an eagle always an eagle; and Robert William was no less aquiline in the day of adversity than in his palmy time of patent prosperity.1832, The London Spy, volume 2, page 292:
- So, all things being equal, from the beginning of my stay with Travis, I was in as palmy and benign a state as I could remember in many years.1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage, published 2004, page 48:
Forms of palmy
| comparative | palmier |
|---|---|
| superlative | palmiest |
Origin of palmy
From palm + -y.
Words formed from palmy
Words that rhyme with palmy
Questions about palmy
- What does palmy mean?
- Palmy means of, related to, or abounding in palm trees.
- What is palmy in Malayalam?
- Palmy in Malayalam is സൗഭാഗ്യ സമ്പൂർണ്ണമായ, സന്തുഷ്ടം, തൃപ്തം. See Palmy meaning in Malayalam.
- How do you use palmy in a sentence?
- However, once an eagle always an eagle; and Robert William was no less aquiline in the day of adversity than in his palmy time of patent prosperity.
- What part of speech is palmy?
- Palmy can be an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce palmy?
- Palmy is pronounced /ˈpɑːmi/ (UK).
Words near palmy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: palmy (page history and authors); Palmy (page history and authors); palmy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); palmy (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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