spume
/spjuːm/
spume noun: foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater.
Noun
spume (countable and uncountable, plural spumes)
- Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater.
- Materials dark and crude, / Of spiritous and fiery spume.1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
- No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms; / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof - to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XIX
Verb
spume (third-person singular simple present spumes, present participle spuming, simple past and past participle spumed)
- To froth.
spume meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
spume in Tamil
- நொதி, பவ்வம், நுரை
spume in Urdu
- جھاگ, پھیند, جھاگ نکلنا
spume in Bengali
- ফেনা, গাঁজ
spume in Malayalam
- froth, foam, surf
- നുര, പത, ശീകരം, സീകരം, ജലശീകരം, മഞ്ഞതുള്ളി
More languagesFewer languages
- spume in Kannada
- ನೊರೆ, ತೇಲುಕೊಳೆ
Examples of spume in a sentence
- Their breath froze in the air as it left their mouths, spouting forth in spumes of vapour that settled upon the hair of their bodies and formed into crystals of frost.1906 May–October, Jack London, chapter I, in White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October...
- The village itself is built on a ridge above the harbour, rows of sturdy cottages over which spume is hurled by easterly gales.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 337, about St Abbs:
- A strong sea wind lashed at his city suit, salt rain stung his eyes, balls of spume skimmed across his path.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
Forms of spume
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | spumes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | spumes |
| present participle | spuming |
| past participle | spumed |
| past | spumed |
Origin of spume
From Middle English spume, from Old French espume, from Latin spūma.
Words formed from spume
Words that rhyme with spume
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- gloom
- 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
- thoom
- toom
Questions about spume
- What does spume mean?
- Spume means foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater.
- What is spume in Tamil?
- Spume in Tamil is நொதி, பவ்வம், நுரை. See Spume meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use spume in a sentence?
- Their breath froze in the air as it left their mouths, spouting forth in spumes of vapour that settled upon the hair of their bodies and formed into crystals of frost.
- What part of speech is spume?
- Spume can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce spume?
- Spume is pronounced /spjuːm/.
- What is the plural of spume?
- The plural of spume is spumes.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: spume (page history and authors); spume (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spume (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spume (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spume (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); spume (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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