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pensums

pensums is the plural of pensum.

Meaning of pensum

Noun

pensum (plural pensums)

  1. (dated) A task or imposition set as a school punishment.
    • You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it wept.1955, Samuel Beckett, translated by Patrick Bowles, Molloy

Questions about pensums

What is pensums the plural of?
Pensums is the plural of pensum.

Words near pensums in the dictionary

  1. penstroke
  2. penstrokes
  3. penstyldensovirus
  4. penstyldensoviruses
  5. pensum
  6. pensums
  7. pensy
  8. Pensylvania
  9. pensée
  10. pensées
  11. pent

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