Hume
/hjuːm/
Hume proper noun: a Scottish habitational surname from Home in Berwickshire.
Proper noun
Hume
- A Scottish habitational surname from Home in Berwickshire.
- An English, Irish and Scottish surname, a variant of Holme.
- David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian.
- An unincorporated community in Fresno County, California. Former name: Humes.
- A village in Shiloh Township and Young America Township, Edgar County, Illinois.
- A township in Whiteside County, Illinois.
- A township in Huron County, Michigan.
- A minor city in Bates County, Missouri.
- A town in Allegany County, New York.
- An unincorporated community in Allen County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Fauquier County, Virginia.
- A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
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- A local government area in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; in full, the City of Hume.
- A region in north-east Victoria, Australia.
- A hamlet in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT7041).
- An electoral division in New South Wales, Australia.
Words formed from Hume
Words that rhyme with Hume
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- home
- presume
- whom
- womb
- resume
- tomb
- abloom
- legume
- loom
- rheum
- backroom
- boardroom
- combe
- coomb
- entomb
- enwomb
- exhume
- flume
- grume
- kaboom
- Khartoum
- neume
- packing room
- shroom
- sloom
- subsume
- absume
- addoom
- anteroom
- barroom
- bitume
- brume
- chum
- cloom
- cwm
- desume
- fixing room
- foredoom
- fwoom
- glume
- illume
- khoum
- locker room
- raying room
- simoom
- spume
- thoom
- toom
Questions about Hume
- What does Hume mean?
- Hume means a Scottish habitational surname from Home in Berwickshire.
- What part of speech is Hume?
- Hume is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Hume?
- Hume is pronounced /hjuːm/.
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