arm
The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
Example
“She stood with her right arm extended and her palm forward to indicate “Stop!””
Other meanings
The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.
“The arm and forearm are parts of the upper limb in the human body.”
A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
A kind of
- limb
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "earm".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “arm” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.