grom

Shortened from grommet.

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grom (plural groms)

1. (surfing, snowboarding, skimboarding, slang) A young surfer, wakeskater, wakeboarder, snowboarder, skimboarder, skateboarder, or kiteboarder.

   They were having this contest for grommets. The waves were micro. Even the groms were disgusted.

• grommet

• grummet

• gorm

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• Rhymes: -ɔm

grom

1. inflection of grommen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

From Sanskrit ग्राम (grāma), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ger- (“to gather”). Compare Kashmiri گام (gām).

grom

1. village

   Synonym: dey

grom

1. alternative form of grome

• IPA^(key): /ɡrʊmː/

grom (masculine and feminine grom, neuter gromt, definite singular and plural gromme, comparative grommare, indefinite superlative grommast, definite superlative grommaste)

1. splendid, excellent, fine, very nice

• “grom” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

grom

1. alternative form of gram

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• Rhymes: -ɔm
• Syllabification: grom
• Homophone: Grom

Inherited from Old Polish grom, from Proto-Slavic *gromъ.

grom m inan

1. (literary) thunder

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

grom

1. second-person singular imperative of gromić

grom

1. dative plural of gra

• grom in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• grom in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “grom”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

grom m (plural gromi)

1. alternative form of groom

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gromъ.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrôːm/

grȏm m inan (Cyrillic spelling гро̑м)

1. thunder

• gr̀meti (“to thunder”)

• “grom”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Proto-Slavic *gromъ.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɔ́m/

grȍm m inan

1. thunder

• “grom”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025