Nam
noun
Nam
1 American
[nahm, nam]
/ nɑm, næm /
Or
'Nam
noun
Informal.
Nam
2
American
[nahm]
/ nɑm /
noun
NAM
3
American
Or
N.A.M.
abbreviation
Nam
1
British
/ næm /
noun
NAM
2
British
abbreviation
Etymology
Origin of Nam
First recorded in 1965–70; by shortening
Example Sentences
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Though Nam Ji-ah looks like Ah-eum, Lee does not believe it is her but together they try to discover what happened to her parents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Viet Nam News reported that organ donations had been made to "five critically ill Vietnamese patients" at the hospital.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
Nam said there were a few times he secretly delivered packets of miso soup to Kish during filming.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026
“A few IT workers can easily fund a missile,” said Nam, head of a Seoul-based North Korean human-rights group called People for Successful Corean Reunification, or PSCORE.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
There’s only two kinds of people in Nam.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
“The productivity advantages, supported by preferential trade and investment with Mexico and Canada under the USMCA, remain critical,” NAM says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
In more than 60 years of existence, NAM has had little impact on trade or diplomacy.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 21, 2023
Johan Atema, director of NAM, the company set up in 1947 to extract gas from Dutch fields, called the closure announcement an important decision.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
NAM also made a slippery slope argument: it claimed that in time the government would use the amendment to expand its power even more.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 1, 2023
“The rest of us were champing at the bit to speak out and maintained a silence about this,” this NAM member says.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 28, 2022
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