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Grammar : Noun
Spell : nawrm
Phonetic Transcription : nɔrm



Definition of norm

Origin :
  • "standard, pattern, model," 1821, from French norme, from Latin norma "carpenter's square, rule, pattern," of unknown origin. Klein suggests a borrowing (via Etruscan) of Greek gnomon "carpenter's square." The Latin form of the word, norma, was used in English in the sense of "carpenter's square" from 1670s.
  • noun average, standard
Example sentences :
  • Every one is a judge of everything, for he holds fast to the norm.
  • Extract from : « The New Society » by Walther Rathenau
  • The mores contain the norm by which, if we should discuss the mores, we should have to judge the mores.
  • Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
  • Then they seem true and right, and arise into mores as the norm of welfare.
  • Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
  • So also frênai has given Freeney, chênai, Chaney, and the Norm.
  • Extract from : « The Romance of Names » by Ernest Weekley
  • The meaning of a rule, of a norm which the man sets up for himself.
  • Extract from : « Introduction to the Science of Sociology » by Robert E. Park
  • I had to get myself up to the norm of physique, and I did so.
  • Extract from : « Hurricane Island » by H. B. Marriott Watson
  • Norm can take that and show it to him as a sign that you've changed your mind.
  • Extract from : « The Deserter, and Other Stories » by Harold Frederic
  • "No, I ain't goin' to get out again, Norm," he said querulously.
  • Extract from : « The Deserter, and Other Stories » by Harold Frederic
  • "Well, you'll have time to do that while Norm's gone," commented Job.
  • Extract from : « The Deserter, and Other Stories » by Harold Frederic
  • Norm noticed it, but of course he would not have said so for the world.
  • Extract from : « The Pansy Magazine, June 1886 » by Various

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