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4 lettersPronunciation /tɜːm/Part of speech verb, nounSorted emrtStarts with TEnds with M1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Word or expression; period of time

Word origin

From Middle English terme, borrowed from Old French terme, from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end; in Medieval Latin, also a time, period, word, covenant, etc.”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ (“stump, end, boundary”).

Used in a sentence

  • Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms, or boundaries.
  • At the decline of day, Winding above the mountain’s snowy term, New banners shone: […]
  • "Alright, look...we can spend the holidays with your parents, but this time it will be on my terms."

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