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Webster 1913 Edition

Warm

Warm

,
Adj.
[
Com
par.
Warmer
;
sup
erl.
Warmest
.]
[AS.
wearm
; akin to OS., OFries., D., & G.
warm
, Icel.
varmr
, Sw. & Dan.
varm
, Goth.
warmjan
to warm; probably akin to Lith.
virti
to cook, boil; or perhaps to Skr.
gharma
heat, OL.
formus
warm. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK], [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK].]
1.
Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk.
“Whose blood is warm within.”
Shak.
Warm
and still is the summer night.
Longfellow.
2.
Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing.
3.
Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather;
as, the
warm
climate of Egypt
.
4.
Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable.
Mirth, and youth, and
warm
desire!
Milton.
Each
warm
wish springs mutual from the heart.
Pope.
They say he’s
warm
man and does not care to be mad[GREEK] mouths at.
Addison.
I had been none of the
warmest
of partisans.
Hawthor[GREEK][GREEK].
5.
Violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate;
as, a
warm
contest; a
warm
debate
.
Welcome, daylight; we shall have
warm
work on't.
Dryden.
6.
Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; forehanded; rich.
[Colloq.]
Warm
householders, every one of them.
W. Irving.
You shall have a draft upon him, payable at sight: and let me tell you he as
warm
a man as any within five miles round him.
Goldsmith.
7.
In children's games, being near the object sought for; hence, being close to the discovery of some person, thing, or fact concealed.
[Colloq.]
Here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting “
warm
,” [GREEK][GREEK] children say at blindman's buff.
Black.
8.
(Paint.)
Having yellow or red for a basis, or in their composition; – said of colors, and opposed to cold which is of blue and its compounds.
Syn. – Ardent; zealous; fervent; glowing; enthusiastic; cordial; keen; violent; furious; hot.

Warm

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Warmed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Warming
.]
[AS.
wearmian
. See
Warm
,
Adj.
]
1.
To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to;
as, a stove
warms
an apartment
.
Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and
warm
himself.
Isa. xliv 15
Enough to
warm
, but not enough to burn.
Longfellow.
2.
To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.
I formerly
warmed
my head with reading controversial writings.
Pope.
Bright hopes, that erst bosom
warmed
.
Keble.

Warm

,
Verb.
I.
[AS.
wearmian
.]
1.
To become warm, or moderately heated;
as, the earth soon
warms
in a clear day summer
.
There shall not be a coal to
warm
at.
Isa. xlvii. 14.
2.
To become ardent or animated;
as, the speake[GREEK]
warms
as he proceeds
.

Warm

,
Noun.
The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a warming; a heating.
[Colloq.]
Dickens.

Webster 1828 Edition

Warm

WARM

,
Adj.
Waurm. [G. See Swarm.]
1.
Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold; as warm blood; warm milk. The flesh of living animals is warm, if their blood is warm. But some animals have not warm blood.
2.
Subject o heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no winter; as the warm climate of Egypt.
3.
Zealous; ardent; as, to be warm in the cause of our country or of religion.
Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.
4.
Habitually ardent or passionate; keen; irritable; as a warm temper.
5.
Easily excited or provoked; irritable; as warm passions.
6.
Violent; furious; as a warm contest. We shall have warm work to-day.
7.
Busy in action; heated in action; ardent. Be warm in fight.
8.
Fanciful; enthusiastic; as a warm head.
9.
Vigorous; sprightly.
Now warm in youth, now withering in thy bloom, lost in a convents solitary gloom.

WARM

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment. The sun in summer warms the earth, and gives life to vegetation.
2.
To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; as, to warm the heart with love or zeal.
I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings.

WARM

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To become moderately heated. The earth soon warms in a clear day in summer.
2.
To become ardent or animated. The speaker should warm as he proceeds in the argument, for as he becomes animated, he excites more interest in his audience.

Definition 2024

warm

warm

See also: wärm

English

Adjective

warm ‎(comparative warmer, superlative warmest)

  1. Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.
    The tea is still warm.
    This is a very warm room.
    • Longfellow
      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.
    • Black
      Here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting "warm", as children say at blindman's buff.
  5. (archaic) Ardent, zealous.
    a warm debate, with strong words exchanged
    • Milton
      Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!
    • Alexander Pope
      Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.
    • Addison
      They say he's a warm man and does not care to be made mouths at.
    • Hawthorne
      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.
  6. (archaic) Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; rich.
    • Washington Irving
      warm householders, every one of them
    • Goldsmith
      You shall have a draft upon him, payable at sight: and let me tell you he as warm a man as any within five miles round him.
  7. (archaic) Requiring arduous effort.
    This was a warm day to the British.
Synonyms
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Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations

See also

Etymology 2

From Old English werman.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To make or keep warm.
    • Bible, Isaiah xliv. 15
      Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself.
    • Longfellow
      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. (intransitive) 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. To become ardent or animated.
    The speaker warms as he proceeds.
  5. To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
    • Alexander Pope
      I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings.
    • Keble
      Bright hopes, that erst bosom warmed.
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

warm ‎(plural warms)

  1. (colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Charles Dickens to this entry?)
    Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?

Statistics

Most common English words before 1923: escape · Mr · shot · #927: warm · sufficient · conduct · directly

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɑrm
  • IPA(key): /ʋɑr(ə)m/

Etymology

From Middle Dutch warm, from Old Dutch warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- ‎(“warm, hot”) or alternatively *wer- ‎(“to burn”). Compare Low German warm, West Frisian waarm, German warm, English warm, Danish varm.

Adjective

warm ‎(comparative warmer, superlative warmst)

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

Inflection

Inflection of warm
uninflected warm
inflected warme
comparative warmer
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial warm warmer het warmst
het warmste
indefinite m./f. sing. warme warmere warmste
n. sing. warm warmer warmste
plural warme warmere warmste
definite warme warmere warmste
partitive warms warmers —

Antonyms

Related terms

German

Etymology

From Old High German warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- ‎(“warm, hot”) or alternatively *wer- ‎(“to burn”). Compare Low German warm, Dutch warm, English warm, West Frisian waarm, Danish varm.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vaʁm/ (standard)
  • IPA(key): /vaːm/ (common; particularly northern and central Germany)

Adjective

warm ‎(comparative wärmer, superlative am wärmsten)

  1. warm, hot
  2. (archaic, except in "warmer Bruder") homosexual, gay

Antonyms

Derived terms

Declension

Comparative forms of warm
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative er ist wärmer sie ist wärmer es ist wärmer sie sind wärmer
strong declension
(without article)		 nominative wärmerer wärmere wärmeres wärmere
genitive wärmeren wärmerer wärmeren wärmerer
dative wärmerem wärmerer wärmerem wärmeren
accusative wärmeren wärmere wärmeres wärmere
weak declension
(with definite article)		 nominative der wärmere die wärmere das wärmere die wärmeren
genitive des wärmeren der wärmeren des wärmeren der wärmeren
dative dem wärmeren der wärmeren dem wärmeren den wärmeren
accusative den wärmeren die wärmere das wärmere die wärmeren
mixed declension
(with indefinite article)		 nominative ein wärmerer eine wärmere ein wärmeres (keine) wärmeren
genitive eines wärmeren einer wärmeren eines wärmeren (keiner) wärmeren
dative einem wärmeren einer wärmeren einem wärmeren (keinen) wärmeren
accusative einen wärmeren eine wärmere ein wärmeres (keine) wärmeren

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *warmaz, whence also Old Saxon warm, Old English wearm, Old Norse varmr, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐍂𐌼𐍃 ‎(warms). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- ‎(“warm, hot”) or alternatively *wer- ‎(“to burn”).

Adjective

warm

  1. warm

Descendants

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *warmaz ‎(“warm”), whence also Old English wearm, Old Frisian warm, Old High German warm, Old Norse varmr, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐍂𐌼𐍃 ‎(warms). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- ‎(“warm, hot”) or alternatively *wer- ‎(“to burn”).

Adjective

warm (comparative warmoro, superlative warmost)

  1. warm

Declension


Descendants

Etymology

From Middle English warm, werm, from Old English wearm, 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.

The term is cognate with West Frisian waarm, Dutch/German/Low German warm, English/Norwegian/Swedish varm and Icelandic/Faroese varmur.

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