Palm Definition
- A strong desire for money, especially bribes.
- to be the winner; take the prize
- to acknowledge the superiority of; admit to defeat by
- to desire money greedily
- to cause, by trickery or deceit, to be accepted as genuine or true
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Palm
- an itchy palm
- bear the palm
- yield the palm to
- have an itching palm
- palm off
Origin of Palm
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From Middle English palme, paume, from Old French palme, paulme, paume (“palm of the hand, ball, tennis"), from Latin palma (“palm of the hand, hand-breadth"), from Proto-Indo-European *palam-, *plām- (“palm of the hand"). Cognate with Ancient Greek παλάμη (palámÄ“, “palm of the hand"), Old English folm (“palm of the hand"), Old Irish lám (“hand").
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English palme, from Old English palm, palma (“palm-tree, palm-branch"), from Latin palma (“palm-tree, palm-branch, palm of the hand"), from Proto-Indo-European *palam-, *plām- (“palm of the hand"). Cognate with Dutch palm, German Palme, Danish palme, Icelandic pálmur (“palm").
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old English and from Old French palme both from Latin palma palm of the hand, palm tree (from the shape of the tree's fronds) pelə-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Middle English paume from Old French from Latin palma palm tree, palm of the hand pelə-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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