cham

contraction1

1. •
   (no longer used) I am

noun1

1. •
   An autocrat or dominant critic, especially Samuel Johnson.

   • Sitting at a table, drinking Ale, observing the Mist thro’ the Window-Panes, Mason forty-five, the Cham sixty-four. — 1997

verb1

1. •
   (no longer used) To chew.

adjective1

1. •
   Pertaining to the Cham people or their language.

noun2

1. •
   [plural only] An ethnic group living in Cambodia and Vietnam.
2. •
   an ethnic Albanian from Çamëri, originally resided in the western part of the region of Epirus in northwestern Greece, an area known among Albanians as Çamëri (engl.: Chameria).