Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: froth
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially:
A collection of small bubbles created when the surface of a body of water is moved by tides, wind, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: froth, surf, spindrift, spume, spray
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially:
A collection of small bubbles formed from bodily fluids such as saliva or sweat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: froth
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially:
A collection of small bubbles on the surface of a liquid that is heated, fermented or carbonated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: froth, effervescence, fizz, head, mousse
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially:
A collection of small bubbles created by mixing soap with water.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: froth, lather, suds
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially:
A collection of small bubbles formed by mixing an extinguishing agent with water, used to cover and extinguish fires.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: firefighting, government
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: froth
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially:
A food prepared in the form of a mass of airy bubbles.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
Synonyms: froth
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A material formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The sea.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, poetic, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Fury, rage, ire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Sneakers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, in-plural, uncountable
Qualifier: African-American Vernacular
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To form or emit foam.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: suds
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To spew saliva as foam; to foam at the mouth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To coat or cover with foam.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: firefighting, government
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: froth
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bubble
Narrower terms: shaving foam, head, lather, soapsuds, suds, spume, white water, whitewater
noun
a lightweight material in cellular form; made by introducing gas bubbles during manufacture
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: material, stuff
Narrower terms: Styrofoam, foam rubber
verb
become bubbly or frothy or foaming
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: froth, fizz, effervesce, sparkle, form bubbles
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bubble
Narrower terms: lather, seethe
History
From Middle English fom, foom, from Old English fām, from Proto-West Germanic *faim, from Proto-Germanic *faimaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)poHy-m-os, from *(s)poH(y)- (“foam”). Cognate with German Feim (“foam”), Latin spūma (“foam”), Latin pūmex (“pumice”), Sanskrit फेन (phéna, “foam”), possibly Northern Kurdish fê (“epilepsy”).
Across languages
254 source translations are retained for this English entry.
