Gram

See also: Appendix:Variations of "gram"

English

Proper noun

Gram

1. A surname.
2. A town in Denmark.
3. (US) A male given name Alternative form of Graham.

Proper noun

the Gram

1. (informal) Clipping of Instagram.
   • 2015, Meesha Mink, All Hail the Queen: An Urban Tale, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 95:

     Very good,” the store owner said, eyeing the slits on the side of the dress that exposed Naeema's cinnamon brown skin. “Makeup?” she asked. “Do it for the Gram!” the woman said holding up a cell phone. Naeema held up one finger, blocking ...

Alternative forms

• 'Gram, 'gram, gram

Anagrams

• GARM, MAgr, marg

German

Etymology

From Middle High German gram (“displeasure, anger”), from Old High German *gramo, from Proto-Germanic *gramô (“anger”). Cognate with English grame. Akin also to Old Norse gramr (“wroth”) (whence the name of the sword), French and English chagrin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁaːm/
• Rhymes: -aːm

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Gram m (strong, genitive Grames or Grams, no plural)

1. grief

   Nach dem Tode seiner Geliebten raffte ihn der Gram bald hinweg.

   After the death of his beloved, grief soon killed him.

   Vielleicht ist sie gestorben aus Gram über den Verlust ihres einzigen Kindes.

   Perhaps she died of grief over the loss of her only child.

   • 1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], volume 1, Berlin: S. Fischer, page 219:

     Er sprach von verborgenem Leide, von Scham und Gram, von der erlösenden Wirkung der Analyse; […] .

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Declension of Gram [sg-only, masculine, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Gram
genitive	eines	des	Grames, Grams
dative	einem	dem	Gram, Grame1
accusative	einen	den	Gram

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• grämlich
• gramvoll

Proper noun

Gram n (proper noun, strong, genitive Grams)

2. (Norse mythology) A magical sword that Sigurd used to kill the dragon Fafnir.

   Synonyms: Balmung, Nothung

Further reading

• “Gram” in Duden online
• “Gram”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• Gram (Schwert) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de