palmy

From palm +‎ -y.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːmi/

palmy (comparative palmier, superlative palmiest)

1. Of, related to, or abounding in palm trees. [from 16th c.]
   • 1819, Reginald Heber, The Missionary Hymn:

     From Greenland’s icy mountains,

     From India’s coral strand,

     Where Afric’s sunny fountains

     Roll down their golden sand;

     From many an ancient river,

     From many a palmy plain,

     They call us to deliver

     Their land from error’s chain.

2. (figuratively) Prosperous, flourishing, booming or thriving. [from 17th c.]
   • 1832, The London Spy (volume 2, page 292):

     Elliston was, in his day, the Napoleon of Drury Lane; but, like the conqueror at Austerlitz, he suffered his declensions, and the Surrey became to him a Saint Helena. However, once an eagle always an eagle; and Robert William was no less aquiline in the day of adversity than in his palmy time of patent prosperity.

   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., OCLC 34363729, page 73:

     “It must have been just like the palmy days of the British Drama.”

   • 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage 2004, p. 48:

     So, all things being equal, from the beginning of my stay with Travis, I was in as palmy and benign a state as I could remember in many years.

   • 1995 May 21, Steven Levy, “The Unabomber and David Gelernter”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     Not many people would argue with his opening insight—that in 1939 people attending the World's Fair gobbled up the optimistic view of the future offered in Flushing Meadows, while people now, in much palmier times than in the late Depression, with World War II looming, are generally pessimistic.

3. (obsolete) Made out of palm leaves or palm sap. [15th–19th c.]

• amply, maply

palmy

1. genitive singular of palma
2. nominative plural of palma
3. accusative plural of palma
4. vocative plural of palma

• IPA^(key): /ˈpal.mɨ/

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• Rhymes: -almɨ
• Syllabification: pal‧my

palmy

1. inflection of palma:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

palmy

1. first-person plural imperative of palić

• palmy in Polish dictionaries at PWN