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tump

/tʌmp/

tump noun: a mound or hillock.

Noun (1)

tump (plural tumps)

  1. (UK, rare) A mound or hillock.
    • The island was two rocks grey as twilight between which a tump of iron loam ribbed with flint bore a stand of fir and spruce.1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!
    • […] winding to the southward, he stopped his little nag short of the crest, and got off and looked ahead of him, from behind a tump of whortles.1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone

Verb (1)

tump (third-person singular simple present tumps, present participle tumping, simple past and past participle tumped)

  1. (transitive) To form a mass of earth or a hillock around.
    • to tump teasel

Verb (2)

tump (third-person singular simple present tumps, present participle tumping, simple past and past participle tumped)

  1. (Southern US, transitive) to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump")
    • Don't tump that bucket over!
  2. (Southern US, intransitive) To fall over.
  3. (US, dialectal) To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
    • To reach our sleeping quarters under the roof we were obliged to climb seven flights of stairs and after tumping a blanket roll and a ruck-sack up these, both our breath and enthusiasm had suffered abatement.1918, Robert Whitney Imbrie, Behind the Wheel of a War Ambulance

Noun (2)

tump (plural tumps)

  1. (uncommon) A tumpline.

tump meaning in Urdu

tump in Urdu

ڈلا, ٹیلا

Forms of tump

Noun
pluraltumps
Verb
third-person singular presenttumps
present participletumping
past participletumped
pasttumped

Origin of tump

Compare Welsh twmp, twm; also Sicilian timpa.

Possibly from tumpoke.

Apheresis of mattump, metump, possibly from a Penobscot descendant of Proto-Algonquian *wetempi (“head”).

Words formed from tump

Phrases with tump

Words that rhyme with tump

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Questions about tump

What does tump mean?
Tump means a mound or hillock.
What is tump in Urdu?
Tump in Urdu is ڈلا, ٹیلا. See Tump meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is tump?
Tump can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce tump?
Tump is pronounced /tʌmp/.
What is the plural of tump?
The plural of tump is tumps.

Words near tump in the dictionary

  1. tumourous
  2. tumourously
  3. tumours
  4. tumoursphere
  5. tumourspheres
  6. tump
  7. tump line
  8. tump lines
  9. tumpang
  10. Tumpat
  11. tumped

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tump (page history and authors); tump (Urdu 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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