Balaam Definition

bāləm
noun
A prophet hired to curse the Israelites: when he beat his donkey, the animal rebuked him: Num. 22-24
Webster's New World

(slang, archaic, journalism) A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column.

Wiktionary
pronoun

A diviner in the Torah.

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Other Word Forms of Balaam

Noun

Singular:
Balaam
Plural:
balaams

Origin of Balaam

  • The journalism sense is an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking; see talk out one's ass.

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