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capharnaum

capharnaum noun: a disorderly jumble; marked by a disorderly accumulation of objects.

Noun

capharnaum (plural capharnaums)

  1. A disorderly jumble; marked by a disorderly accumulation of objects.
    • To his amazement, going through a capharnaum of miscellany (this was October, 1930, to January, 1931), Professor Abbott found what completely sidetracked him from Beattie.1950, Christopher Morley, Preface to Boswell’s London Journal, 1762–1763, Yale University Press, page xxix

Forms of capharnaum

pluralcapharnaums

Origin of capharnaum

Borrowed from French capharnaüm.

Questions about capharnaum

What does capharnaum mean?
Capharnaum means a disorderly jumble; marked by a disorderly accumulation of objects.
What part of speech is capharnaum?
Capharnaum is a noun.
What is the plural of capharnaum?
The plural of capharnaum is capharnaums.

Words near capharnaum in the dictionary

  1. Capgras delusions
  2. Capgras syndrome
  3. Capgras syndromes
  4. caph
  5. caphar
  6. capharnaum
  7. capharnaums
  8. caphars
  9. Capheaton
  10. caphs
  11. Caphtor

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