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Definition of 'Ham' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) ham
a cut of meat from a hog's hind quarter, between hip and hock; thigh.

2.  ham
that part of a hog's hind leg.

3.  ham
the part of the human leg behind the knee.

4.  ham
Often, hams. the back of the thigh, or the thigh and the buttock together.

5. (n.) ham
an actor or performer who overacts.

6.  ham
an operator of an amateur radio station.

7. (v.t.) ham
to act with exaggerated expression of emotion; overact.

8. (n.) Ham
the second son of Noah, Gen. 10:1.


Definition of 'Ham' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) ham, jambon, gammon
meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)

2. (noun) Ham
(Old Testament) son of Noah

3. (noun) ham
a licensed amateur radio operator

4. (verb) ham, ham actor
an unskilled actor who overacts

5. (verb) overact, ham it up, ham, overplay
exaggerate one's acting


Definition of 'Ham' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) ham
the meat from a pig's leg, or the leg with the meat on it
a ham sandwich; a smoked ham


Definition of 'Ham' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Ham
home

2. (noun) Ham
the region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock

3. (noun) Ham
the thigh of any animal; especially, the thigh of a hog cured by salting and smoking


Definitions of 'Ham' The Nuttall Encyclopedia 

1.  Ham
a son of Noah, and the Biblical ancestor of the southern dark races of the world as known to the ancients.

2.  Ham
a town in the dep. of Somme, France, 70 m. NE. of Paris, with a fortress, used in recent times as a State prison, in which Louis Napoleon was confined from 1840 to 1846.


Definitions of 'Ham' The New Hacker's Dictionary 

1.  Ham
The opposite of spam, sense 3; that is, incoming mail that the user actually wants to see.


Translation of 'Ham' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: the top of the back leg of a pig, salted and dried.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: ham Arabic flag Arabic: لَحْم فَخْذ الخِنزير المُ Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: шунка
Brazilian flag Brazilian: presunto Czech flag Czech: šunka German flag German: der Schinken
Danish flag Danish: skinke Greek flag Greek: ζαμπόν Spanish flag Spanish: jamón
Estonian flag Estonian: sink Farsi flag Farsi: ژامبون نمک زده خوک Finnish flag Finnish: kinkku
French flag French: jambon Hebrew flag Hebrew: בשר יֶרֶך-חֲזִיר Hindi flag Hindi: सूअर का पुठ्ठा
Croatian flag Croatian: but;šunka Hungarian flag Hungarian: sonka Indonesian flag Indonesian: ham
Icelandic flag Icelandic: skinka Italian flag Italian: prosciutto Japanese flag Japanese: ハム
Korean flag Korean: 돼지의 허벅다리, 햄 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: kumpis Latvian flag Latvian: šķiņķis
Malay flag Malay: ham Dutch flag Dutch: ham Norwegian flag Norwegian: skinke
Polish flag Polish: szynka Persian flag Persian: ژامبون نمک زده خوک Pashto flag Pashto: خوګ دورانه وچه غوښه چه په
Portuguese flag Portuguese: pernil Romanian flag Romanian: şuncă, jambon Russian flag Russian: ветчина
Slovak flag Slovak: šunka Slovenian flag Slovenian: šunka Serbian flag Serbian: šunka
Swedish flag Swedish: skinka Thai flag Thai: เนื้อขาหมูรมควัน Turkish flag Turkish: jambon
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 火腿 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: стегно; шинка Urdu flag Urdu: سؤر کے گوشت کی نصف ران نم
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: giăm bông Chinese flag Chinese: 火腿

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