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cuming

cuming is the present participle and gerund of cume.

Meaning of cume

Verb

cume (third-person singular simple present cumes, present participle cuming, simple past and past participle cumed)

  1. Earn cumulatively at the box office.
    • Despite the exhibitor complications, Goodbye To Language has already surpassed Godard’s most recent previous project, Film Socialisme, which cumed about $33K in the U.S in its 2011 release.2014, Brian Brooks, Deadline Hollywood, “Godard’s ‘Goodbye To Language’ Says Hello To Weekend’s Best Specialty Box Office”, November 2, 2014

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Proper noun capitalized: Cuming

Cuming

  1. A surname.

Origin of cuming

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic Cuimeinich, presumably from Anglo-Norman de Comyn, which was a surname of toponymic origin, either from Commin near Rouen or Comines near Lille.

Words formed from cuming

Questions about cuming

What does cuming mean?
Cuming means a surname.
What is cuming the present participle and gerund of?
Cuming is the present participle and gerund of cume.
What part of speech is cuming?
Cuming is a proper noun.

Words near cuming in the dictionary

  1. cumidine
  2. Cumilla
  3. cumin
  4. cuminal
  5. cuminaldehyde
  6. cuming
  7. Cuming County
  8. Cumings
  9. Cumingses
  10. cuminic
  11. cuminil

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cuming (page history and authors); Cuming (page history and authors); cume (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.

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