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# graham

«graham» in Mova's school dictionary: **a boy's or man's first name and a family name** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (graham flour; graham cracker — US); Graham (a name)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Graham is a boy's or man's first name and a family name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graham/#m1)

2) (US) A graham cracker is a sweet, flat wholemeal biscuit; graham flour is wholemeal wheat flour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graham/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

As a name it is written with a capital letter (Graham). In North American kitchens and camping: graham crackers are used in s'mores and pie bases. Phrases: graham cracker, graham flour.

### examples

- My uncle's name is Graham. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graham/#x1)
- We made s'mores with graham crackers and marshmallows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graham/#x2)
- Graham scored the winning goal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graham/#x3)
- The pie has a graham cracker crust. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graham/#x4)
- Mr Graham is our new teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graham/#x5)
- Graham flour makes the bread brown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graham/#x6)

### note

Mainly a name; capital letter when it names a person. Graham crackers are a US and Canadian food; in the UK a similar biscuit is a digestive. Pronounced GRAY-am (two syllables) or "gram".

### In the corpora

- [Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in 1876, which means he was given the official right to it as his invention.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/100-communication-letters-to-internet/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «graham» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graham/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.