warm

• warme (obsolete)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /wɔːm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /wɔɹm/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)m

From Middle English warm, werm, from Old English wearm, from Proto-West Germanic *warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz, with different proposed origins:

1. Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”), related to Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós), Latin formus, Sanskrit घर्म (gharma).
2. Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to burn”), related to Hittite [script needed] (warnuzi) and to Old Church Slavonic варити (variti).

The dispute is due to differing opinions on how initial Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰ- evolved in Germanic: some think that *gʷʰ would have turned to *b, and that the root *gʷʰer- would instead have given rise to burn etc. Some have also proposed a merger of the two roots.

warm (comparative warmer, superlative warmest)

warm colors

1. Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.

   The tea is still warm.

   This is a very warm room.

   • 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Herons of Elmwood

     Warm and still is the summer night.

   • 1985, Robert Ferro, Blue Star:

     It seemed I was too excited for sleep, too warm, too young.

2. Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.

   We have a warm friendship.

3. Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.
4. Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal.
   • 1876, William Black, Madcap Violet

     Here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting "warm", as children say at blindman's buff.

5. Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
6. (figurative) Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness

   a warm piano sound

7. (archaic) Ardent, zealous.

   a warm debate, with strong words exchanged

   • 1646 (indicated as 1645)​, John Milton, “Song on May Morning”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], OCLC 606951673:

     Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!

   • 1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, OCLC 43265629:

   • 1712 September 22 (Gregorian calendar)​, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele [et al.], “THURSDAY, September 11, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 481; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:

     They say he's a warm man and does not care to be made mouths at.

   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, OCLC 223202227:

     I had been none of the warmest of partisans.

   • 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 1

     To the strength and fierceness of barbarians they added a contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.

8. (archaic, colloquial) Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous.
   • 1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], OCLC 938500648; reprinted London: Elliot Stock, 1885, OCLC 21416084:

     You shall have a draught upon him, payable at sight: and let me tell you he is as warm a man as any within five miles round him.

   • 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview 2004, p. 258:

     Mrs. and the Miss Cathcarts began to be considered as people of some consequence in the circle in which they moved, while he gradually obtained in the city the name of a warm man.

   • 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], OCLC 864083:

     I know the Stuyvesant family —puff— every one of them —puff— not a more respectable family in the province —puff— old standards —puff— warm householders —puff— none of your upstarts

9. (archaic) Requiring arduous effort.
   • 1929, The Listener (issues 41-50, page 552)

     The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way.

• See also Thesaurus:warm
• See also Thesaurus:affectionate
• See also Thesaurus:difficult

• (mild temperature): Arctic, cold, cool, frozen
• (caring): Arctic, cold, cool, frozen

• heated
• hot
• steamy
• temperature
• tepid

From Old English wierman.

warm (third-person singular simple present warms, present participle warming, simple past and past participle warmed)

1. (transitive) To make or keep warm.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Isaiah 44 44-Chapter-15/# 15::

     Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself.

   • 1825, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus

     enough to warm, but not enough to burn

2. (intransitive) To become warm, to heat up.

   My socks are warming by the fire.

   The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.

3. (transitive with to) (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess‎:

     Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.

   He is warming to the idea.

   Her classmates are gradually warming to her.

4. (intransitive) To become ardent or animated.

   The speaker warms as he proceeds.

5. (transitive) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
   • 1717 November 20, Alexander Pope, letter to the Bishop of Rochester

     there was a collection of all that had been written […] : I warmed my head with them.

   • 1827, [John Keble], The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], OCLC 1029642537:

     Bright hopes, that erst the bosom warmed.

6. (transitive, colloquial) To beat or spank.
   • 1945, The Atlantic (volume 176, page 94)

     Not bothering to turn around and not missing a mouthful, Myrtle comforted her with threats of "I'll warm your bottom"; "I'll turn you over to your dad"; "I'll lock you in the truck"; "I'll send for the bogey man" — all of which Darleen ignored […]

7. (transitive, colloquial) To scold or abuse verbally.
8. (computing, transitive) To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.

• like death warmed over

warm (plural warms)

1. (colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.
   • 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the page number)”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], OCLC 55746801:

     Sit ye down before the fire , my dear , and have a warm

   Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?

From Dutch warm, from Middle Dutch warm, from Old Dutch warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz.

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warm (attributive warmer, comparative warmste, superlative warmste)

1. warm
   • 2016, “Dinge Raak Warm”, in Sal Jy Met My Dans?‎, South Africa, performed by Kurt Darren:

     Dinge raak warm.

     Things touch warm.

• woare, woarm, wore, wérme

From Middle High German warm, from Old High German warm. Cognate with German warm, Dutch warm, English warm, Icelandic varmur.

warm

1. (Formazza) warm

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

From English warm.

warm

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, of person, environment, family) warm (caring and loving)

From Middle Dutch warm, from Old Dutch warm, from Proto-West Germanic *warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz, of uncertain origin; derivations from either Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”) or *wer- (“to burn”) have been proposed.

• IPA^(key): /ʋɑr(ə)m/

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• Hyphenation: warm
• Rhymes: -ɑrm
• Homophone: Warm

warm (comparative warmer, superlative warmst)

1. warm, hot

   Antonym: koud

2. (meteorology, officially) 20 °C or more

• warmte
• warmwater

• Afrikaans: warm
• Berbice Creole Dutch: warum
• Negerhollands: warm, werm

• tropisch
• zomers

From Middle High German and Old High German warm.

• IPA^(key): /varm/, [vaʁm], [vaɐ̯m], [vaːm], [ʋ-]

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warm (strong nominative masculine singular warmer, comparative wärmer, superlative am wärmsten)

1. warm; mildly hot

   Antonyms: kalt, kühl

2. (of clothes) warm; keeping the wearer warm
3. (of rental prices, chiefly adverbial or in compounds) including heating costs, water, and fees (electricity may or may not be included)

   Ich zahle 800 € warm für meine Wohnung.

   I pay €800 for my apartment, including utilities.

4. (dated, except in warmer Bruder) gay, homosexual (mostly male)

   Synonym: schwul

• German warm means “warm”, but not “feeling warm”; therefore the phrase ich bin warm (literally “I am warm”) would mean that one’s body has a high temperature, particularly that one’s skin is warm on the outside. The English “I am warm” (that is: I feel warm) is equivalent to German mir ist warm (literally “to me it's warm”).
• Although warm (“gay”) is not in general use, this sense is current enough to make it advisable not to describe the relation between two men as warm (unless the implication is intended).

• “warm” in Duden online
• “warm” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Old Dutch warm, from Proto-West Germanic *warm.

warm

1. warm, hot
2. warm, keeping the wearer warm (of clothes)
3. warm (of emotions)

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• wāerm
• werm

• Dutch: warm
  • Afrikaans: warm
• Limburgish: werm
• West Flemish: werm

• “warm”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “warm”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• warme, werm, wearm

From Old English wearm.

• IPA^(key): /warm/, /wɛrm/

warm (plural and weak singular warme, comparative warmer, superlative warmest)

1. (temperature) warm, mildly hot
2. (weather) warm, pleasant, mild
3. heated, warmed
4. (locations or garments) having a tendency to be warm; designed to stay warm
5. Being at a healthy temperature
6. enthusiastic, vigourous

• Scots: wairm
• English: warm

• “warm, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-26.

warm

1. warmness, heat

• “warm, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-26.

From Proto-West Germanic *warm.

warm

1. warm

• warmī

• Middle High German: warm
  • Alemannic German: warm
    • Italian Walser: warm, woare, woarm, wore, wérme
  • Bavarian: borm
    • Cimbrian: barm
    • Mòcheno: bòrm
    • Udinese: borm, borbm, boarm
    • Viennese: wårm
  • Central Franconian: wärm, warm
    • Hunsrik: waarem
  • German: warm
  • Luxembourgish: waarm
  • Yiddish: וואַרעם‎ (varem)

From Proto-West Germanic *warm (“warm”).

warm (comparative warmoro, superlative warmost)

1. warm

• Middle Low German: warm
  • Low German: warm
  • German Low German: warm