palm
- noun
- B1
- Top 5000
The wide inside surface of your hand, between the wrist and the place where the fingers start.
She held the tiny seed in the palm of her hand.
He wrote the address on his palm with a blue pen.
My palms were sweating before I walked onto the stage.
The horse ate the apple pieces straight from my flat palm.
Common collocations: the palm of your hand · sweaty palms · hold something in your palm · palm up · read someone's palm
Part of: Parts of the body
Forms
- plural
- palms