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Syamese

Syamese is the obsolete form of Siamese.

Meaning of Siamese

Adjective

Siamese (comparative more Siamese, superlative most Siamese)

  1. Of or relating to Siam; Thai.
    • I remember one such occasion when a Siamese pupil had fired the train from Lime Street, and so complimentary were the Chief's remarks on the condition of the fire that we found our young Siamese friend difficult to live with for about a week afterwards!1943 July and August, T. Lovatt Williams, “Some Reminiscences of the Footplate—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 235
  2. (not comparable) Of a connection of tubes or hoses: shaped like the letter Y.

See all 6 meanings of Siamese

Forms of Syamese

comparativemore Syamese
superlativemost Syamese

Questions about Syamese

What is Syamese the obsolete form of?
Syamese is the obsolete form of Siamese.

Words near Syamese in the dictionary

  1. syair
  2. syairs
  3. SyAM
  4. Syamantak
  5. syame
  6. Syamese
  7. syamisen
  8. syamisens
  9. SyAMs
  10. Syamyon
  11. Syan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Syamese (page history and authors); Siamese (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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