English
cham
see also: Cham
Pronunciation Noun

cham (plural chams)

  1. Archaic spelling of khan#English|khan.
  2. An autocrat or dominant critic, especially Samuel Johnson.
    • 1997: "Sitting at a table, drinking Ale, observing the Mist thro’ the Window-Panes, Mason forty-five, the Cham sixty-four." — Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
    • 2007: The Tonsons […] would publish Johnson's Shakespeare only by subscription, obliging the Great Cham to sell copies well ahead of publication — Michael Dobson, ‘For his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen’, London Review of Books 29:9, p. 3
Verb

cham (chams, present participle chamming; past and past participle chammed)

  1. (obsolete) To chew.
    • 1531, William Tyndale, Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue
      But he that repenteth toward the law of God, and at the sight of the sacrament, or of the breaking, feeling, eating, chamming, or drinking, calleth to remembrance the death of Christ, his body breaking and blood shedding for our sins [...]
Cham
Noun
  1. An ethnic group living in Cambodia and Vietnam.
Translations
  • Russian: чам
Proper noun
  1. The Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by these people.
Adjective

cham

  1. Pertaining to the Cham people or their language.
Translations
  • French: cham
  • Russian: ча́мский
Proper noun
  1. A town in Bavaria, Germany.
Translations
  • German: Cham
Proper noun
  1. A town in Zug, Switzerland.
Translations
  • German: Cham
Noun

cham (plural chams)

  1. an ethnic Albanian from Çamëri, originally resided in the western part of the region of Epirus in northwestern Greece, an area known among Albanians as Çamëri (engl.: Chameria).
Synonyms
  • Tsam, Tsams
  • Albanocham
  • Albanophone
  • (derogatory) Turco-Cham
  • (derogatory) Turco-Albanian
Related terms Translations
  • German: Tscham


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