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calm
/kɑm/
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What does calm mean?
adjective
- Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
- Free of noise and disturbance.
- with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled.
More meanings (8)
adjective
- Without wind or storm.
- (slang) Good; alright; cool; OK.
noun
- The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.
- The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.
- The absence of wind; a period of time without wind.
- Initialism of café au lait macule.
verb
- To make calm.
- To become calm.
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IPA pronunciation
/kɑm/
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The window went up, a maid-servant’s discordant voice profaned the holy calm, and a deluge of water drenched the prone martyr’s remains!
They kept on a north-northeasterly course for two days, when they were overtaken by a calm which lasted for nearly a week.
More book examples (3)
His collected and calm manner could not prevent her blood from running cold, as he thus tried to anatomise his old condition.
Be calm, good wind, blow not a word away Till I have found each letter in the letter Except mine own name.
A proof of her weakness lay in the very utterance of what calm strength would not have taken the trouble to formulate.