calm

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   (of weather) free from storm or wind

   calm seas

2. 2
   verb

   to cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to

   I calmed the patient before surgery.

3. 3
   adj

   Free of noise and disturbance.

   Calm is the morn without a sound, ⁠Calm as to suit a calmer grief, ⁠And only thro’ the faded leaf The chestnut pattering to the ground: […]

4. 4
   adj

   Good; alright; cool; OK.

   Hi, welcome to Puma. If you need any help, my name's Kelly. That's calm, man[…]Thirty pounds is the limit, I think you'll pay no more, I'm sorry. Aight, fuck it! What, can I do chip and pin. Calm, I'ma put my pin in like boom!

5. 5
   noun

   The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.

   Calm on the seas, and silver sleep, ⁠And waves that sway themselves in rest, ⁠And dead calm in that noble breast Which heaves but with the heaving deep.

6. 6
   noun

   The absence of wind; a period of time without wind.

   The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

7. 7
   verb

   To make calm.

   to calm a crying baby

8. 8
   adj

   not agitated

Etymology

From Middle English calm, calme, from Middle French calme, probably from Old Italian calma, of uncertain origin. Calma may derive from Late Latin cauma (“heat of the midday sun”), from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”), from καίω (kaíō, “to burn”), or possibly from Latin caleō. Compare also Lombardic *chalm, *chalma (“frozenness”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kalmaz (“frozenness, cold”). Displaced native Middle English smilte (“quiet, still, gentle”) from Old English smylte (“quiet, tranquil, calm, serene”).