• warme(obsolete)

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/wɔːm/
• (US)IPA^(key):/wɔɹm/

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• Rhymes:-ɔː(ɹ)m

FromMiddle Englishwarm,werm, fromOld Englishwearm, fromProto-West Germanic*warm, fromProto-Germanic*warmaz, probably fromProto-Indo-European*gʷʰor-mo-s, from the root*gʷʰer-(“warm, hot”), related toAncient Greekθερμός(thermós) (in which case perhaps a distantdoublet ofthermos),Latinformus,Sanskritघर्म(gharmá), or alternatively fromProto-Indo-European*wer-(“to burn”), related toHittite𒉿𒊏𒀀𒉌(warāni,“to burn”),Armenianվառել(vaṙel,“to burn, heat, warm”),Old Church Slavonicварити(variti,“to cook, boil”).

warm (comparativewarmer,superlativewarmest)

1. Of a somewhat hightemperature.

   The tea is stillwarm.

   This is a verywarm room.

   • 1863,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,The Herons of Elmwood:

     Warm and still is the summer night.

   • 1985, Robert Ferro,Blue Star:

     It seemed I was too excited for sleep, toowarm, too young.

   • 2021 August 12, Katie Hunt, “Mammoths were the original ‘ice road truckers,’ traveling vast distances across the Arctic”, inCNN‎^[1]:

     While the study doesn’t directly shed light on why, it suggested that maintaining a similar degree of mobility as the climate changed to thewarmer and wetter pattern we have today could have imparted additional stress as the mammoth encountered unfamiliar environments or restricted its movement.

   • 2024 March 8, Mary Gilbert and Eric Zerkel, “Winter is over, and it was the warmest on record. Here’s what the US missed out on this season”, inCNN‎^[2]:

     Kids jump into Lake Michigan during unseasonablywarm conditions in Chicago on February 26, 2024.[…] This winter was thewarmest on record for the Lower 48, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information said Friday. Records date to the late 1800s.

2. Friendly and with affection.

   We have awarm friendship.

3. Having acolor in the part of the visibleelectromagneticspectrum between red and yellow-green.
5. (informal) Close to a goal or correct answer.

   Earlier you wereway off, but now you're gettingwarmer.

   • 1876,William Black, “An Encounter”, inMadcap Violet. […], volume III, London:Macmillan and Co.,→OCLC,page74:

     That was a further clue; and here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting "warm," as children say at blind-man's-buff, although, as a matter-of-fact, she had now been talking of George Miller at all.

6. Fresh, of ascent; still able to betraced.
7. (figurative) Communicating a sense ofcomfort,ease, orpleasantness.

   awarm piano sound

8. (archaic)Ardent,zealous.

   awarm debate, with strong words exchanged

   • 1646 (indicated as1645),John Milton, “Song on May Morning”, inPoems of Mr. John Milton, […], London:[…] Ruth Raworth forHumphrey Mosely, […],→OCLC:

     Mirth, and youth, andwarm desire!

   • 1712 September 22 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison;Richard Steeleet al.], “THURSDAY, September 11, 1712”, inThe Spectator, number481; republished inAlexander Chalmers, editor,The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.:D[aniel] Appleton & Company,1853,→OCLC:

     They say he's awarm man and does not care to be made mouths at.

     The spelling has been modernized.

   • 1717,Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, inThe Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume(please specify |volume=I or II), London:[…]W[illiam] Bowyer, forBernard Lintot, […], published1717,→OCLC:
   • 1776–1788,Edward Gibbon, chapter I, inThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume(please specify |volume=I to VI), London:[…]W[illiam] Strahan; andT[homas] Cadell, […],→OCLC:

     To the strength and fierceness of barbarians they added a contempt for life, which was derived from awarm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.

   • 1850,Nathaniel Hawthorne,The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.:Ticknor, Reed, and Fields,→OCLC:

     I had been none of thewarmest of partisans.

9. (archaic,informal)Well off as to property, or in good circumstances;prosperous.
   • 1766, [Oliver Goldsmith],The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume(please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire:[…] B. Collins, forF[rancis] Newbery, […],→OCLC:

     You shall have a draught upon him, payable at sight: and let me tell you he is aswarm a man as any within five miles round him.

   • 1791,Charlotte Smith,Celestina, Broadview, published2004, page258:

     Mrs. and the Miss Cathcarts began to be considered as people of some consequence in the circle in which they moved, while he gradually obtained in the city the name of awarm man.

   • 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym;Washington Irving],Tales of a Traveller,(please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.:H[enry] C[harles] Carey &I[saac] Lea, […],→OCLC:

     I know the Stuyvesant family —puff— every one of them —puff— not a more respectable family in the province —puff— old standards —puff—warm householders —puff— none of your upstarts

10. (archaic) Requiring arduous effort.
    • 1929,The Listener, numbers41-50, page552:

      The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, awarm job, too, by the way.

• See alsoThesaurus:warm
• See alsoThesaurus:affectionate
• See alsoThesaurus:difficult

• (antonym(s) of“mild temperature”):Arctic,cold,cool,frozen
• (antonym(s) of“caring”):Arctic,cold,cool,frozen

• heated
• hot
• steamy
• temperature
• tepid

FromOld Englishwierman.

warm (third-person singular simple presentwarms,present participlewarming,simple past and past participlewarmed)

1. (transitive) To make or keepwarm.
   • 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,Isaiah 4444-Chapter-15/# 15::

     Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof andwarm himself.

   • 1825,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Morituri Salutamus:

     enough towarm, but not enough to burn

2. (intransitive) To become warm, to heat up.

   My socks arewarming by the fire.

   The earth soonwarms on a clear summer day.

3. (intransitive)(sometimes in the formwarm up) Tofavourincreasingly. [withto]
   • 1963,Margery Allingham, chapter 5, inThe China Governess: A Mystery, London:Chatto & Windus,→OCLC:

     Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and shewarmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.

   He iswarming to the idea.

   Her classmates are graduallywarming to her.

4. (ditransitive withto) To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly.
   • 2006, Matt Wray,Not Quite White, page xi:

     It is with no small degree of irony that I confess that immersing myself in an interdisciplinary project haswarmed me to the seductions of disciplinary perspectives.

5. (intransitive) To becomeardent oranimated.

   The speakerwarms as he proceeds.

6. (transitive) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
   • 1717 November 20,Alexander Pope, letter to the Bishop of Rochester

     there was a collection of all that had been written[…]: Iwarmed my head with them.

   • 1827, [John Keble],The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume(please specify |volume=I or II), Oxford, Oxfordshire:[…][B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; andC[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […],→OCLC:

     Bright hopes, that erst the bosomwarmed.

7. (transitive) To giveemotionalwarmth to a person.
   • 1886, Joseph Augustus Seiss,Right Life: Or, Candid Talks On Vital Themes:

     That is just the way God tells me this book is His Word. I read it, and itwarms me and gives me light.

8. (transitive,colloquial) Tobeat orspank.
   • 1945,The Atlantic, volume176, page94:

     Not bothering to turn around and not missing a mouthful, Myrtle comforted her with threats of "I'llwarm your bottom"; "I'll turn you over to your dad"; "I'll lock you in the truck"; "I'll send for the bogey man" — all of which Darleen ignored[…]

9. (transitive,colloquial) Toscold orabuse verbally.
10. (computing,transitive) Toprepopulate (acache) so that its contents are ready for otherusers.

warm (pluralwarms)

1. (colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; aheating.

   Shall I give your coffee awarm in the microwave?

   • 1843 December 19,Charles Dickens, “(please specify the page number)”, inA Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London:Chapman & Hall, […],→OCLC:

     Sit ye down before the fire , my dear , and have awarm

FromDutchwarm, fromMiddle Dutchwarm, fromOld Dutchwarm, fromProto-Germanic*warmaz.

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warm (attributivewarmor(chiefly in figurative use)warme,comparativewarmer,superlativewarmste)

1. warm

   Ek het ure lank in diewarm water gelê.

   I lay in thewarm water for hours.

   Ek het aan almal mywarme dank uitgespreek.

   I expressed mywarm thanks to all.

   • 2016, “Dinge Raak Warm”, inSal Jy Met My Dans?‎^[3], performed by Kurt Darren, South Africa:

     Dinge raakwarm.

     Things are gettingwarm.

• verwarm
• warmte

• woare,woarm,wore,wérme

FromMiddle High Germanwarm, fromOld High Germanwarm. Cognate withGermanwarm,Dutchwarm,Englishwarm,Icelandicvarmur.

warm

1. (Formazza)warm

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013)Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

FromEnglishwarm.

warm

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, of person, environment, family)warm(caring andloving)

FromMiddle Dutchwarm, fromOld Dutchwarm, fromProto-West Germanic*warm, fromProto-Germanic*warmaz, of uncertain origin; derivations from eitherProto-Indo-European*gʷʰer-(“warm, hot”) or*wer-(“to burn”) have been proposed.

• IPA^(key):/ʋɑr(ə)m/

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• Hyphenation:warm
• Rhymes:-ɑrm
• Homophone:Warm

warm (comparativewarmer,superlativewarmst)

1. warm,hot

   Antonym:koud

2. (meteorology, officially) 20°C or more

• Afrikaans:warm
• Berbice Creole Dutch:warum
• Negerhollands:warm,werm

• tropisch
• zomers

FromMiddle High German andOld High Germanwarm.

• IPA^(key):/varm/,[vaʁm],[vaɐ̯m],[vaːm],[ʋ-]

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warm (strong nominative masculine singularwarmer,comparativewärmer,superlativeamwärmsten)

1. warm; mildlyhot

   Antonyms:kalt,kühl

2. (of clothes) warm; keeping the wearer warm
3. (of rental prices, chiefly adverbial or in compounds) includingheatingcosts,water, andfees (electricity may or may not be included)

   Ich zahle 800 €warm für meine Wohnung.

   I pay €800 for my apartment, including utilities.

4. (dated, except inwarmer Bruder)gay,homosexual (mostly male)

   Synonym:schwul

• Germanwarm means “warm”, but not “feeling warm”; therefore the phraseich bin warm(literally“I am warm”) would mean that one’s body has a high temperature, particularly that one’s skin is warm on the outside. The English “I am warm” (that is: Ifeel warm) is equivalent to Germanmir ist warm(literally“to me it's warm”).
• Althoughwarm(“gay”) is not in general use, this sense is current enough to make it advisable not to describe the relation between two men aswarm (unless the implication is intended).

• “warm” inDuden online
• “warm” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

FromOld Dutchwarm, fromProto-West Germanic*warm.

warm

1. warm,hot
2. warm, keeping the wearer warm (of clothes)
3. warm (of emotions)

• wāerm
• werm

• Dutch:warm
  • Afrikaans:warm
• Limburgish:werm
• West Flemish:werm

• “warm”, inVroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek,2000
• Verwijs, E.,Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “warm”, inMiddelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff,→ISBN

• warme,werm,wearm

FromOld Englishwearm.

• IPA^(key):/warm/,/wɛrm/

warm (plural and weak singularwarme,comparativewarmer,superlativewarmest)

1. (temperature)warm, mildly hot
2. (weather)warm, pleasant, mild
3. heated,warmed
4. (locations or garments) having a tendency to be warm; designed to stay warm
5. Being at a healthy temperature
6. enthusiastic,vigourous

• Scots:wairm
• English:warm

• “warm,adj.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007, retrieved2018-03-26.

warm

1. warmness,heat

• “warm,adj.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007, retrieved2018-03-26.

FromProto-West Germanic*warm.

warm

1. warm

• warmī

• Middle High German:warm
  • Alemannic German:warm
    • Italian Walser:warm,woare,woarm,wore,wérme
  • Bavarian:borm
    • Cimbrian:barm
    • Mòcheno:bòrm
    • Udinese:borm,borbm,boarm
    • Viennese:wårm
  • Central Franconian:wärm,warm
    • Hunsrik:waarem
  • German:warm
  • Luxembourgish:waarm
  • Yiddish:וואַרעם(varem)

FromProto-West Germanic*warm(“warm”).

warm (comparativewarmoro,superlativewarmost)

1. warm

• Middle Low German:warm
  • Low German:warm
  • German Low German:warm