grom

Shortened from grommet.

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grom (plural groms)

1. (surfing, snowboarding, skimboarding, slang) A young surfer, wakeskater, wakeboarder, snowboarder, skimboarder, skateboarder, or kiteboarder.

   They were having this contest for grommets. The waves were micro. Even the groms were disgusted.

• grommet

• grummet

• gorm

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• Rhymes: -ɔm

grom

1. inflection of grommen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

From Sanskrit ग्राम (grāma), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ger- (“to gather”). Compare Kashmiri گام (gām).

grom

1. village

   Synonym: dey

• grome, grume

From Old English *grōma, *grōm, from Proto-West Germanic *grōmō (“growth, tumor, stomach swelling”). Compare Middle Dutch grom, Old Norse grómr, gromr, and Old French gromme. Suggested to be either from the same root as growen (“to grow”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *grō-, with a noun-forming suffix *-m-.

• IPA^(key): /ɡroːm/

grom (plural gromes, genitive plural gromes or gromene)

1. A boy; a male child (of any age)
2. An attendant, servant, or follower (of a noble)
3. A man, especially a commoner.

• English: groom
  • → Dutch: groom
• Scots: grome, grume, greem
• → Old French: gromme, groume
  • ⇒ Old French: groumet
    • Middle French: gourmet
      • French: gourmet
        • → English: gourmet
• → Icelandic: grómr, gromr

• “grọ̄m, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 October 2018.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrʊmː/

grom (masculine and feminine grom, neuter gromt, definite singular and plural gromme, comparative grommare, indefinite superlative grommast, definite superlative grommaste)

1. splendid, excellent, fine, very nice

• “grom” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

grom

1. alternative form of gram

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• Rhymes: -ɔm
• Syllabification: grom
• Homophone: Grom

Inherited from Old Polish grom, from Proto-Slavic *gromъ.

grom m inan

1. (literary) thunder

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

grom

1. second-person singular imperative of gromić

grom

1. dative plural of gra

• grom in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• grom in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “grom”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

grom m (plural gromi)

1. alternative form of groom

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gromъ.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrôːm/

grȏm m inan (Cyrillic spelling гро̑м)

1. thunder

• gr̀meti (“to thunder”)

• “grom”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Proto-Slavic *gromъ.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɔ́m/

grȍm m inan

1. thunder

• “grom”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025