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Definition of gram noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

gram

noun
 
/ɡræm/
 
/ɡræm/
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  1. (also British English, less frequent gramme)
    (abbreviation g, gm)
     a unit for measuring weight. There are 1 000 grams in one kilogram.Topics Cooking and eatingb2, Maths and measurementb2
  2. -gram
     a thing that is written or drawn
    • telegram
    • hologram
    3. Word Originsense 1 late 18th cent.: from French gramme, from late Latin gramma ‘a small weight’, from Greek.sense 2from Greek gramma ‘thing written, letter of the alphabet’, from graphein ‘write’.
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