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salm

salm is the obsolete form of psalm.

Meaning of psalm

Noun

psalm (plural psalms)

  1. A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.
  2. One of the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship.

See all 3 meanings of psalm

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Salm

Salm

  1. (historical) Any of several historical countships and principalities in present-day Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Salm

Salm

  1. The star Tau Pegasi in the constellation of Pegasus.

Forms of salm

pluralsalms

Questions about salm

What does salm mean?
Salm means any of several historical countships and principalities in present-day Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.
What is salm the obsolete form of?
Salm is the obsolete form of psalm.
What part of speech is salm?
Salm is a proper noun.

Words near salm in the dictionary

  1. sallyings
  2. sallyport
  3. sallyports
  4. Sallys
  5. Sallys Flat
  6. salm
  7. Salma
  8. salmacian
  9. salmacians
  10. salmagundi
  11. salmagundies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: salm (page history and authors); Salm (page history and authors); psalm (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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