Perm Definition

pûrm
permed, perms
noun
perms

Permanent.

Webster's New World
A permanent.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
verb
To give a permanent to.
Webster's New World

To give hair a perm, using heat, chemicals etc.

Wiktionary
pronoun

Historical region of northeastern Russia, corresponding to the Kama basin, a left tributary of the Volga. In Russian known as Пермь, also Пермь Великая "Great Perm" or Пермь Камская Kamskaya Perm after the Kama River.

Wiktionary

City in Russia, administrative centre of Perm kray near the Ural mountains.

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Other Word Forms of Perm

Noun

Singular:
perm
Plural:
perms

Origin of Perm

  • Rendition of the Russian toponym Пермь, probably from a Finno-Permic (Uralic) stem, compared to Estonian põrand, dialectal põrmand "floor, ground" by P. Alvre in Keel ja Kirjandus No 7, 1981, pp. 407-413.

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  • Appears on western maps as latinized Permia in the late 16th century (Mercator (1595)).¨The Russian city of Perm is a modern foundation, established under Peter I in 1723.

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Perm Sentence Examples

  • Astrakhan, perhaps extending also into Perm.

  • If Spike is so tortured why did he get a perm?

  • The governments of Orel (shoe factories), Kherson, Vyatka, Nizhniy-Novgorod, Perm, Kiev and Kazan rank next in this respect.

  • These people came for the most part from the northern parts of the black earth zone of middle Russia, and to a smaller extent from the Lithuanian governments and the Ural governments of Perm and Vyatka.

  • It starts from Perm on the Kama, and, crossing the Urals, reaches Ekaterinburg - the centre of mining industry - and Tyumen on the Tura, whence steamers ply via Tobolsk to Tomsk.

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Words Starting With

PPEPER

Words Ending With

MRMERM

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Words Starting With P and Ending With M

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4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With P4 Letter Words Ending With M