Arm Definition
- An excessively high price:
a cruise that cost an arm and a leg.
- With arms linked together:
They walked across the beach arm in arm.
- At such a distance that physical or social contact is discouraged:
kept the newcomer at arm's length at first.
- With great cordiality and hospitality.
- Extremely upset; indignant.
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Arm
Origin of Arm
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From Middle English armes weapons from Old French pl. of arme weapon from Latin arma weapons ar- in Indo-European roots Verb, Middle English armen from Old French armer from Latin armāre from arma
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Middle English arm (“poor, wretched”), from Old English earm (“poor, miserable, pitiful, wretched”), from Proto-Germanic *armaz (“poor”), from Proto-Indo-European *erm- (“poor, ill”).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English, from Old French arme, from Latin arma (“weapons”), from Proto-Indo-European *ar-mo-, a suffixed form of *ar- (“to fit together”), hence ultimately cognate with etymology 1.
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English, from Old English earm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz (“arm”), from Proto-Indo-European *arəm- (“arm”), a suffixed form of *ar- (“to fit together”).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old English earm ar- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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