jam – English noun declension

English noun forms of jam

Noun: jam
Singularjam
Pluraljams

Sample Sentences

  • He is allergic to jam.
  • She loves eating jam for breakfast in hotels.
  • It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot. […] Well, they got him in the same kind of jam, and soaked him to the tune of three hundred and eighty-six thousand. [1928, Upton Sinclair, Boston:]
  • She was married when we first met / Soon to be divorced / I helped her out of a jam, I guess / But I used a little too much force [1975, Bob Dylan, “Tangled Up in Blue”:]
  • Where, where is my common sense? / How did I get in a jam like this? [1977, David Byrne, “Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town”, in Talking Heads: 77, performed by Talking Heads:]
  • The pitcher's in a jam now, having walked the bases loaded with the cleanup hitter coming to bat.
  • a jam on the 101 South, blocking the two right lanes [radio report]
  • a jam of logs in a river
  • According to Boeing, in the history of this elevator design (which exists on all Boeing DC-9/MD-80 series and 717 model airplanes), this accident was the first notification that Boeing had received of an elevator jam occurring on an airplane exposed to ground gusts lower than 65 kts. Boeing noted that the elevator design first entered service in 1965 on the then-Douglas DC-9 airplane. [2019 February 14, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.3.2.3 Elevator Design Standard for Ground Gust Loads”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Runway Overrun During Rejected Takeoff, Ameristar Air Cargo, Inc., dba Ameristar Charters, flight 9363, Boeing MD-83, N786TW, Ypsilanti, Michigan, March 8, 2017, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2022, page 12:]
  • pump up the jam
  • And a mix CD titled "Summer Jamz 2000." Jamz is spelled with a "z". [2025, S.E. Case, chapter 1, in Rigsby WI, volume 1: Foothold, →ISBN, retrieved 23 Aug 2025, page 16:]
  • The result is an outstanding assortment of sophisticated, sexy and hip-hop-tinged R&B grooves, ballads and party jams. [2001, Jet, volume 100, number 22, page 25:]
  • We came up with some new ideas at the game jam.
  • […] a day at new Farm Park with an art jam, fursuit games, and a nerf war, ending in the evening at the strike Wintergarden bowling center. [2017, Fred Patten, Furry Fandom Conventions, 1989-2015, page 92:]
  • Teaching is my jam.
  • Toughie scored four points in that jam.
  • I used a whole series of fist and foot jams in that crack.
  • He's got more jam than Waitrose.
  • I don't think he has the jam.
  • ’Tis fine to be a pretty girl, or just a gay and witty girl,
  • And obviously to be both is rightly counted jam,
  • But even more desirable, and clearly less acquirable,
  • Is that mysterious quality denominated glam. [1939 July 19, The Bulletin, Sydney, page 14, column 1:]

Etymology

1. First attested in the early 18th c. as a verb meaning “to press, be pressed, be wedged in”. Compare dialectal jammock (“to press, squeeze, crush into a soft mass, chew food"; also "a soft, pulpy substance”). Perhaps from Middle English chammen, champen ("to bite upon something, gnash the teeth"; whence modern champ, chomp), of uncertain origin; probably originally onomatopoeic.
2. The "performance" sense is first attested with regards to jazz in 1929, and its origin, though uncertain, is likely metaphorical, "something sweet made by the combination of many things", with influence from jamboree.

Verbs referencing "jam"

Romanian Nouns gem, Dutch Nouns jam, Russian Nouns джем, Ukrainian Nouns джем, Hungarian Nouns dzsem, Finnish Nouns jamit, Icelandic Nouns djamm, Zulu Nouns ujamu, Belarusan Nouns джэм.