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I initially got a job at Disneyland through a friend who was working there. He said, 'You would make a great princess there,' and that I should audition. So I just went on a whim to audition, and I wound up getting a job as Belle, from 'Beauty and the Beast,' at Disneyland. I did that for about a year and a half.
Sarah Butler

Meaning of "whim" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD WHIM

From whim-wham.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF WHIM

whim  [wɪm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WHIM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Whim is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WHIM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Whim

Whim may refer to: ▪ Whim, United States Virgin Islands, a settlement ▪ Whim, a capstan or drum with a vertical axle used in mining ▪ Whim, a type of carriage ▪ Whim, a reissue of Adventures of Wim, a book by George Cockroft as Luke Rhinehart ▪ Whim, a character in Jim Woodring's Frank...

Definition of whim in the English dictionary

The definition of whim in the dictionary is a sudden, passing, and often fanciful idea; impulsive or irrational thought. Other definition of whim is a horse-drawn winch formerly used in mining to lift ore or water.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WHIM

whillywha
whilom
whilst
whim-wham
whim-whams
whimberry
whimbrel
whimmy
whimper
whimperer
whimpering
whimsical
whimsicality
whimsically
whimsicalness
whimsier
whimsies
whimsiest
whimsiness
whimsy

WORDS THAT END LIKE WHIM

Elohim
him
Joachim
Kaddishim
mashgichim
midrashim
Qaddishim
seraphim
shammashim
shidduchim
shim
shloshim
teraphim
there are no flies on him
there is no holding him
what-d´ye-call-him

Synonyms and antonyms of whim in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «WHIM»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «whim» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of whim
caprice · conceit · craze · crotchet · fad · fancy · freak · humour · impulse · notion · quirk · sport · urge · vagary · whimsy

Translation of «whim» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WHIM

Find out the translation of whim to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of whim from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «whim» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

突发的念头
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

capricho
570 millions of speakers

English

whim
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

यूँ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نزوة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

каприз
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

capricho
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাতিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

coup de tête
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sesuka hati
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Laune
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

気まぐれ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

변덕
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kepiye wae
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không chừng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிறு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लहर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

heves
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

capriccio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kaprys
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

каприз
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

capriciu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ιδιοτροπία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

willekeur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

infall
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

innfall
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of whim

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WHIM»

The term «whim» is quite widely used and occupies the 30.677 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of whim
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «whim».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WHIM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «whim» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «whim» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about whim

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10 QUOTES WITH «WHIM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word whim.
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Joan Van Ark
I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing.
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Jami Attenberg
In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.
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Kabir Bedi
I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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Stephen Breyer
Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.
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Sarah Butler
I initially got a job at Disneyland through a friend who was working there. He said, 'You would make a great princess there,' and that I should audition. So I just went on a whim to audition, and I wound up getting a job as Belle, from 'Beauty and the Beast,' at Disneyland. I did that for about a year and a half.
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Charles Churchill
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
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Daniel Clowes
In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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Diplo
All of the best songs happen on a whim.
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Alice Morse Earle
Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness.
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C. S. Forester
A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WHIM»

Discover the use of whim in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to whim and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hire on a Whim
Three types of readers will find this book useful: those who hireworkers with experience, those who hire recent graduates and thosewho are getting ready to interview for a job.
Garrett Miller, 2010
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The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting
The Iron Whim is an intelligent, irreverent, and humorous history of writing culture and technology.
Darren Sean Wershler-Henry, 2005
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Killed at the Whim of a Hat
When crime reporter Jimm Juree is forced to follow her family from Chiang Mai to a fishing village on the Gulf of Siam, she's convinced her career is over.
Colin Cotterill, 2011
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A Rich Man's Whim
A month with the ruthless Russian… Kat Marshall has sacrificed everything for her younger sisters.
Lynne Graham, 2013
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On a Whim
On a Whim is the second book in the Katie Weldon Series.
Robin Jones Gunn, 2009
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Whim Man Mammon
This is deft work--and hefty work (as in big and as in bag)--that squeezes gallon after gallon of the 21st century's natural and cultural detritus into one marvelous sack of song.
Abraham Smith, 2007
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Whim, Woe And Wonder
These and other very important, questions, conundrums and quandaries are delved in Whim, Woe And Wonder (Tales For The Ever - Present Child).Radar says: "Read this Book!
Craig Kandell, 2010
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Lady Worsley's Whim: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, ...
'The story of the Worsley divorce has never been revealed before, and Hallie Rubenhold tells it with panache. Her account of the elopement is gripping, but this is far more than an 18th-century bodice-ripper.
Hallie Rubenhold, 2011
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Queenie's Whim
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Rosa Nouchette Carey, 2012
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Cater to a Whim/the Winning Heart
Cater to a Whim: God promised to bless her in all her endeavors, didn't He? And yet things keep going wrong for Bandy.
Norma Jean Lutz, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WHIM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term whim is used in the context of the following news items.
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Whim W'Him dancers master many styles
When Seattle contemporary dance troupe Whim W'Him was founded five years ago, it seemed to be exclusively a showcase for the prodigious choreographic ... «The Seattle Times, May 15»
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Don't Miss Whim W'Him's Dark, Dreamy, Damn Near Impossible …
Whim W'Him's seven company dancers stand in a rough semi-circle, panting and staring up at French choreographer Manuel Vignoulle with raised eyebrows. «TheStranger.com, May 15»
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Perth fashion label breaks the mould
Bucking the traditional formula of producing seasonal clothing collections to wholesale to retailers, Perth fashion label On A Whim has broken the mould, forging ... «The West Australian, May 15»
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This is what it's really like to be in a hardcore a cappella group
Although Yale's all-female senior group, Whim 'n Rhythm, doesn't get to take a ... director of Whim 'n Rhythm) to talk about what it's really like to be in a serious a ... «Stuff.co.nz, May 15»
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Whim Creek pub taps history
Whim Creek pub taps history Chilled out: Pilbara Motorcycle Sisters Dee Finch, Leah Scholes and Deborah Napier, of Karratha, are keen Whim Creek patrons. «The West Australian, Apr 15»
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Spontaneous DNA mutation causes miracle cure
WHIM is an acronym derived from the main features of the condition – Warts, Hypogammaglobulinemia, Infections, and Myelokathexis (retention of neutrophils in ... «RedOrbit, Feb 15»
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Woman cured of WHIM immune disease by DNA mutation with …
Patients with WHIM have a defect in a single section of their DNA which causes newly-formed immune system cells to get stuck in the bone marrow, which is ... «The Independent, Feb 15»
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Shattered chromosome cures woman of immune disease
The 9-year-old's illness, described in two reports in 1964 in The New England Journal of Medicine, was the first known case of what is now called WHIM (warts, ... «Science Now, Feb 15»
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Introducing Whim™, a New Collection by Martha Stewart …
The Whim collection also includes a 16-piece dinnerware set (online only) with ... Whim bedding ranges from $50 to $200 and the 16-piece dinnerware set is ... «MarketWatch, Feb 15»
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WHIM exercise program helps build mobility
ROCHESTER — Using their electric wheelchairs to form a semicircle in a small conference room, three members of the Wheelchair Health in Motion program ... «Foster's Daily Democrat, Oct 14»

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