Sim

See also: sim, SIM, sím, šim, and šīm

English

Alternative forms

  • (patronymic surname): Simm

Proper noun

Sim

  1. A male given name, diminutive of Simon and Simeon.
    • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
      The other [witness] was one Sim Doolittle, the fish hawker from Allerfoot, jogging home in his fish cart from Gledsmuir fair.
  2. A Scottish surname transferred from the given name derived from the given name.
  3. A surname from Hokkien.
  4. A surname from Korean.

Noun

Sim (plural Sims) (Christianity)

  1. A Simeonite (follower of Charles Simeon).
  2. (by extension) A person with Methodist tendencies.
References
  • 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Noun

Sim (plural Sims)

  1. (video games) Any of the characters in the video game The Sims, which simulates aspects of a human social environment.

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Vietnamese

Etymology

From the flower Rhodomyrtus tomentosa.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Sim

  1. a female given name
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