cham

[ kam ]

/ kæm /

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noun

an archaic variant of khan¹.

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Words nearby cham

chalumeau, chalupa, chalutz, chalybeate, chalybite, cham, chamade, chamaedorea, Chamaeleon, chamaephyte, chamber

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How to use cham in a sentence

The first real guitar I had, Mr. Cham Fields, who owned a roadhouse, gambling house, and W. C. Handy gave it to me.
Stanley Booth on the Life and Hard Times of Blues Genius Furry Lewis|Stanley Booth|June 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Brag not too much, for fear I should expect it, Then if you fail—Cham.
The Little French Lawyer|Francis Beaumont
We have no writer with a more genuine literary flavour about him than the great Cham of literature.
Obiter Dicta|Augustine Birrell
And on account of this Cham, this emperor called himself chan and sovereign of all the world.
Early Travels in Palestine|Arculf et al.

And of that generation of Cham are come the Pagans, and different people that are in islands of the sea about India.
Early Travels in Palestine|Arculf et al.
Pres′ence-cham′ber, -room, the chamber or room in which a great personage receives company.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)|Various

British Dictionary definitions for cham (1 of 2)

cham

/ (kæm) /

noun

an archaic word for khan 1 (def. 1)

Word Origin for cham

C16: from French, from Persian khān; see khan 1

British Dictionary definitions for cham (2 of 2)

Cham

/ (tʃæm) /

noun

plural Cham or Chams a member of a people of Indonesian stock living in Cambodia and central Vietnam

the language of this people, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian family

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