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rame

/reɪm/

rame noun: a remark or complaint repeated incessantly.

Noun (1)

rame

  1. (Scotland) A remark or complaint repeated incessantly.
    • "Does he ever mention the king in his prayer?"
      "O yes: always."
      "What does he say about him?"
      "Something about the sceptre of righteousness, and the standard of truth. I ken he has some rhame about him."1818, James Hogg, The Brownie of Bodsbeck

Verb

rame (third-person singular simple present rames, present participle raming, simple past and past participle ramed)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) To complain or cry incessantly.
    • The münelicht sea—It rugs at the he'rt o' me, An' rames an' rames eternally.1936, J. G. Horne, Flooer o' the ling
  2. (Northern England, Scotland) To talk nonsensically.
    • Yiss, ramin, ravin mad at Betty sood be abune her edder wan wye or da idder.1919, Thomas Manson, Humours of a Peat Commission

Noun (2)

rame (plural rames)

  1. A stalk or branch, especially when dried.
    • Twice in thy pleasant year the wattles crown
      With golden down
      Their somber rames, and with the gums' stiff leaves
      A dusk-white fragrant bloom May interweaves1886, Thomas Heney, Fortunate Days
  2. A framework or skeleton.
  3. The bones of the body; skeleton.

rame meaning in Tamil

rame in Tamil

குழப்ப மகிழ்வு நிலை

Forms of rame

Noun
alternative formraim
alternative formrane
alternative formrhame
pluralrames
Verb
third-person singular presentrames
present participleraming
past participleramed
pastramed

Origin of rame

From Northern Middle English ramen (“to cry out, scream”), from Old English *hrāmian, from Proto-West Germanic *hraimōn, from Proto-Germanic *hraimōną (“to scream”), *hraimaz (“a scream”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerey- (“to scream, screech”). Cognate with Old Norse hreimr (“a scream, cry”), and possibly to Old English hrēam (“a cry, outcry, tumult, noise”).

From late Middle English rame, from or akin to Middle Dutch raem, rame (“framework, frame”), from Old Dutch *hrama, from Proto-West Germanic *hramu (“frame, support”). Possible doublet of frame.

Words formed from rame

Words that rhyme with rame

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Questions about rame

What does rame mean?
Rame means a remark or complaint repeated incessantly.
What is rame in Tamil?
Rame in Tamil is குழப்ப மகிழ்வு நிலை. See Rame meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is rame?
Rame can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce rame?
Rame is pronounced /reɪm/.
What is the plural of rame?
The plural of rame is rames.

Words near rame in the dictionary

  1. Ramdeen
  2. Ramdeens
  3. ramdisk
  4. ramdisks
  5. ramdohrite
  6. rame
  7. rame over
  8. Ramea
  9. rameal
  10. Ramean
  11. Rameans

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rame (page history and authors); rame (Tamil 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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