calm
Forms
- Comparative
- calmer
- Superlative
- calmest
- Plural
- calms
- present (v1)
- calm
- past (v2)
- calmed
- past participle (v3)
- calmed
- present participle
- calming
- 3rd person singular
- calms
Definitions
1.Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
2.Free of noise and disturbance.
3.with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled.
4.Without wind or storm.
1.The absence of wind; a period of time without wind.
- The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
- It was a calm ; so, forming a tandem of three boats, we commenced the slow business of towing the trophy to the Pequod.
2.The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.
3.The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.
1.To make calm.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3342
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English calm, calme, from Middle French calme, probably from Old Italian calma, of uncertain origin. Calma may derive from Late Latin cauma (“heat of the midday sun”), from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”), from καίω (kaíō, “to burn”), or possibly from Latin caleō. Compare also Lombardic *chalm, *chalma (“frozenness”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kalmaz (“frozenness, cold”).