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hummum

/ˈhʌməm/

hummum noun: a Turkish bath. Also the alternative form of humhum.

Noun

hummum (plural hummums)

  1. A Turkish bath.
    • a curious summer-house, excelling all his other for prospect, painting, hummum, waterworks, and a forest which is stored with game of several sorts1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC
    • Of all those knights and baronets, lords and gentlemen, bearing arms, whose escutcheons are painted upon the walls of the famous hall of the Upper Temple, was there no philanthropist good-natured enough to devise a set of Hummums for the benefit of the lawyers, his fellows and successors?1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 30, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...

Also used as

hummum is also the alternative form of humhum.

Forms of hummum

pluralhummums

Origin of hummum

From Arabic حَمَّام (ḥammām).

Questions about hummum

What does hummum mean?
Hummum means a Turkish bath.
What part of speech is hummum?
Hummum is a noun.
How do you pronounce hummum?
Hummum is pronounced /ˈhʌməm/.
What is the plural of hummum?
The plural of hummum is hummums.

Words near hummum in the dictionary

  1. hummocks
  2. hummocky
  3. hummocky ice
  4. hummos
  5. Humms
  6. hummum
  7. hummums
  8. hummuna
  9. hummus
  10. hummuses
  11. hummy

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