What does ham mean?

Definitions for ham
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ham, jambon, gammonnoun

    meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)

  2. Hamnoun

    (Old Testament) son of Noah

  3. hamnoun

    a licensed amateur radio operator

  4. ham, ham actorverb

    an unskilled actor who overacts

  5. overact, ham it up, ham, overplayverb

    exaggerate one's acting

GCIDE

  1. Hamnoun

    The licensed operator of an amateur radio station.

  2. Hamverb

    To act with exaggerated voice and gestures; to overact.

Wiktionary

  1. Hamnoun

    A son of Noah and the brother of Japheth and Shem.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Ham

    whether initial or final, is no other than the Saxon ham, a house, farm, or village. Edmund Gibson Camden.

  2. HAMnoun

    Etymology: ham, Saxon; hamme, Dutch.

    The ham was much relaxed; but there was some contraction remaining. Richard Wiseman.

    Who has not learn’d, fresh sturgeon and ham pye
    Are no rewards for want and infamy. Alexander Pope, Horace.

Wikipedia

  1. Ham

    Ham is pork from a leg cut that has been preserved by wet or dry curing, with or without smoking. As a processed meat, the term "ham" includes both whole cuts of meat and ones that have been mechanically formed. Ham is made around the world, including a number of regional specialties, such as Westphalian ham and some varieties of Spanish jamón. In addition, numerous ham products have specific geographical naming protection, such as prosciutto di Parma in Europe, and Smithfield ham in the US.

ChatGPT

  1. Ham

    Ham typically refers to cured or smoked meat, primarily from a pig's hind leg. It is commonly consumed as a meat product and can be found in various forms such as whole, sliced, or diced. Ham can be cooked, baked, or used as an ingredient in various dishes and recipes.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Hamnoun

    home

  2. Hamnoun

    the region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock

  3. Hamnoun

    the thigh of any animal; especially, the thigh of a hog cured by salting and smoking

  4. Etymology: [Short for hamfatter.]

Wikidata

  1. Ham

    Ham is a cut of meat from the thigh of the hind leg of an animal, usually a pig. Nearly all hams sold today are either fully cooked or cured.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Ham

    ham, n. the back of the thigh: the thigh of an animal, esp. of a hog salted and dried. [A.S. hamm; cf. dial. Ger. hamme.]

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.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. ham

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

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. ham

    A town and fortress of France, in the department of Somme, situated on the river of that name, 36 miles east-southeast from Amiens. It is of ancient origin, and was erected in 1407 into a duchy, which was held by the families of Courcy, Orleans, Luxemburg, and Vendôme. Its old fortress was built by Constable de St. Pol in 1470, and is now used as a state prison. Its walls are 39 feet thick, and its principal tower is 108 feet in height, and the same in diameter. Louis Napoleon, late emperor of the French, was confined here from 1840 till 1846.

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  2. HAM

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Who Was Who?

  1. Ham

    Second officer and engineer of the Ark.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. HAM

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Ham is ranked #2133 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Ham surname appeared 16,980 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 6 would have the surname Ham.

    66.2% or 11,244 total occurrences were White.
    16.4% or 2,786 total occurrences were Asian.
    11.6% or 1,971 total occurrences were Black.
    3.6% or 627 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.6% or 282 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.4% or 68 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'ham' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4637

Anagrams for ham »

  1. HMA

  2. mah

  3. MHA

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ham in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ham in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of ham in a Sentence

  1. Domingo Infante:

    Inside the home, police found two legs of ham, along with the stolen cash and TV. The delectable meats were taken to the local police station as investigators tried to find the other missing legs, which are believed to be in the possession of the suspect's accomplices. Each leg is worth around $ 132. I’ve never imagined my wife and mother-in-law would turn out to be the detectives who solved this.

  2. Ogden Nash, "The Pig":

    The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.

  3. Nicholas II of Russia:

    Well, this may have once been a ham, but now it is nothing but an ex-ham.

  4. Beto ORourke:

    Stacey Abrams have a president, who, in my opinion, beyond the shadow of a doubt, sought to however ham-handedly collude with the Russian government, a foreign power to undermine and influence our elections.

  5. Jon Hamm:

    We've learned that there's a lot of names for a home run, but they're all awesome, we also learned that there's a lot of major league baseball players that would do anything to get their hands on a bedazzled canned ham.

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