om

plural oms · alternative aum

1. HinduismBuddhismA sacred, mystical syllable used in prayer and meditation.

   Om is pronounced "a-a-o-o-u-u-m-m" and is repeated slowly for as long as possible.

   2001 October 20, Hazel Curry, The Guardian

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   In fact it sounded exactly like the voice of Livia, her vanished sister, and, like her, it was intoning the Aum just as she used once to do at the beginning of her yoga sessions.

   1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 800

present singular third person oms · participle present omming · participle past ommed · past ommed · alternative aum

1. intransitiveTo chant the sacred syllable om.

   Allen Ginsberg omming like a death rattle, his voice ravaged by the days of Hindu chants and gas.

   1996, Nora Sayre, Sixties Going on Seventies, page 14

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   I had to go into church to clear it by chanting the sacred mantra 'Om'. I was omming, loudly and intensely so that the vibration of that sacred mantra would fill every corner.

   2015, Hilary H. Carter, Number Woman

1. abbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of Occupy movement.
2. CommonwealthUKabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Order of Merit, a dynastic order of the Royal House of Windsor.

plural OMs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableaeronauticsInitialism of outer marker.
2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of otitis media.
3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of old measurement.
4. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableCB radio slangInitialism of old man (term of address for a male).

   Games for the harmonics, (children), YL's and XYL's and the OM's, plus free soda for all.

   1967, CQ: the Radio Amateur's Journal, volume 23, numbers 7-12, page 140

   Synonyms: OB

5. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of operations manager.

1. abbreviationinitialismball gamesInitialism of Olympique de Marseille.

alternative Om'

1. A river in the south of the Western Siberian plains in Russia, a right tributary of the Irtysh.