toom

Meanings

Plural: tooms

Adj

Empty; bare.

Noun

A piece of waste ground where rubbish is deposited.
Vacant time, leisure.

Verb

To empty; teem.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English toom, tom, from Old English tōm (“empty”), from Proto-West Germanic *tōm(ī), from Proto-Germanic *tōm(ij)az (“free, available, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *doma- (“to tame”), *dema- (“to build”). Cognate with Danish and Swedish tom (“empty, vacant”), Icelandic tómur (“empty”).

Synonyms

clean, empty, empty as a pauper's purse, empty as the tomb on Easter, leer, toom, unfilled, vacant, vacuous, vacuumlike, void

Scrabble Score: 6

toom is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
toom is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
toom is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

toom is a valid Words With Friends word