Thame

See also: thame

English

Etymology

See Thames, of which it is a tributary.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɪm/ (different from Thames)
• Homophones: tame, Tame

Proper noun

Thame

1. A river in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, which flows into the River Thames at Dorchester-on-Thames.
   • 1906, Geraldine Mitton, chapter IV, in The Thames‎^[1], London: A. & C. Black:

     Dorchester is not on the Thames, yet belongs to it certainly, for the Thame, which combines with the Isis to form the Thames, flows past it.

2. A market town and civil parish with a town council in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, by the above river (OS grid ref SP7006).

Anagrams

• hemat-, thema, tameh, Hatem, meath, Mehta, Meath