Definitions for ELM

ELM elm

Spelling: [elm]
IPA: /ɛlm/

Elm is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in ELM (elm).

Definitions for ELM

noun

  1. any tree of the genus Ulmus, as U. procera (English elm) characterized by the gradually spreading columnar manner of growth of its branches. Compare American elm, elm family.
  2. the wood of such a tree.

Origin of ELM

before 1000; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Old High German elm; akin to Old Norse almr, Latin ulmus

Examples for ELM

The elm, indeed, was the only object that ever did cast its shadow there.

Or it may be “llwyv,” an elm tree, in reference to the devastation of the groves just mentioned.

The elm was very common in the island at the period under consideration.

All that side was brilliant green, the other side with the elm tree was dark.

This year, she starred as the protagonist Nancy Holbrook in the remake of the 1980s horror movie A Nightmare on elm Street.

As with most horror remakes, the new Nightmare on elm Street finds the tune but loses the rhythm.

The elm was almost as beautiful in one season as in another.

She could hear the oriole singing in the elm; his song was almost articulate.

As I opened the door to my house, a scene from Nightmare on elm Street started to explode.

A nightingale was singing somewhere in the elm trees which bordered the garden.

Word Value for ELM
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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