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ahum

ahum adjective: humming. Also the alternative form of ahem.

Adjective

ahum (not comparable)

  1. humming
    • Already the air was ahum with the flies around him.1993, Gary Paul Nabhan, Counting Sheep: Twenty Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn, page 102

Also used as

ahum is also the alternative form of ahem.

Origin of ahum

From a- + hum.

Questions about ahum

What does ahum mean?
Ahum means humming.
What part of speech is ahum?
Ahum is an adjective.

Words near ahum in the dictionary

  1. ahuehuetes
  2. ahuh
  3. Ahuja
  4. Ahujas
  5. ahull
  6. ahum
  7. Ahumada
  8. Ahumadas
  9. ahuman
  10. ahun
  11. Ahuna Vairya

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