Word.ws English Dictionary

bitume

/bɪˈtjuːm/

bitume noun: bitumen.

Noun

bitume (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, poetic) bitumen
    • Make thee an arke of timber planke: cabinets ſhalt thou make in the arke, and ſhalt pitch it within, and without with bitume.1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Laurence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Genesis 6:14, page 21

Origin of bitume

From Middle French bitume. Doublet of bitumen.

Words formed from bitume

Words that rhyme with bitume

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about bitume

What does bitume mean?
Bitume means bitumen.
What part of speech is bitume?
Bitume is a noun.
How do you pronounce bitume?
Bitume is pronounced /bɪˈtjuːm/.

Words near bitume in the dictionary

  1. bituberculated
  2. bitucarpin
  3. bitulithic
  4. bitumastic
  5. bitumastics
  6. bitume
  7. bitumed
  8. bitumen
  9. bitumen of Judea
  10. bitumened
  11. bitumening

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bitume (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bitume.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bitume. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.