herm
IPA: hˈɝm
Root Word: Herm
noun
- One of the Channel Islands and part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey.
- A commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in south-western France.
- A rectangular pillar bearing a bust of Hermes, once used as a boundary marker and later as decoration.
- (sometimes derogatory) A hermaphrodite.
adjective
- Abbreviation of hermaphrodite. [Having ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.]
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Examples of "herm" in Sentences
- The infant Hermes was precocious.
- Hermes being armed is not verified.
- Hermes changed the Minyades into bats.
- Holders of the post of tenant of Herm.
- Holders of the post of 'tenant of Herm'.
- Hermes was to be developed in two phases.
- If the plant herms then it is a hermaphrodite.
- The director is George Sidney and the choreographer is Hermes Pan.
- Hermes learned from the Thriae the arts of fortune telling and divination.
- The god Hermes is said to have carried the young Dionysus to the nymphs of Nysa.
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