dram – English noun declension

English noun forms of dram

Noun: dram
Singulardram
Pluraldrams

Sample Sentences

  • Dram (49·5 grains), 100=chequi, 4=oka (2·8286 ℔); dram (49·5 grains), 180=rotl, 100=kintal or kantar (127·29 ℔). [1888, W.M.F. Petrie, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XXIV, s.v. "Weights and Measures"]
  • a dram of brandy
  • Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evildoing. [1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:]
  • When Friday came to him I bade him ſpeak to him, and tell him of his Deliverance, and pulling out my Bottle, made him give the poor Wretch a Dram, which, with the News of his being deliver'd, reviv'd him, and he ſat up in the Boat […] [1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, pages 281–282:]
  • Oh, brethren, if you wants more preachin'
  • Save a little dram for me (Glory hallelujah!)
  • Drinkin' gin ain't against my teachin' [1920, Marshall Walker, Will E. Skidmore, “Save a Little Dram for Me”, performed by Bert Williams:]
  • Connoisseurs may prefer to savour their dram of single malt straight up. But, for beverage companies, that's not where the growth is. [2025 December 27, “Cocktails in a can are the new frontier for drooping drinks giants”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18:]
  • The rolling stock, consisting entirely of four-wheel open trucks, or drams, was broken up at Bonvilles Court Colliery. [1946 November and December, “The Saundersfoot Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 340:]
  • They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams [i.e., the Persian daric] of gold, and five thousand pound of silver […] [The Bible (King James Version), Ezra 2:69]

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English dragme /dramme, from Old French dragme, from Late Latin dragma, from Latin drachma, from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ, “unit of weight; a handful”). Doublet of drachma, diram, dirham, dirhem, and adarme. See: Middle English Nouns 'dragme//dramme', Middle English Nouns 'dragme//dramme', Latin Nouns 'drachma', Ancient Greek Nouns 'δραχμή'.

Verbs referencing "dram"

Danish Nouns dram, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns dram, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns dram.