cum
/kʌm/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.04 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He is too good an actor to need that sort of tomfoolery: the effect will be far better if he is a credible mining camp elder-cum-publican."
- "One driver-cum-fireman-cum-fitter looks after the three locomotives, [...]."
- "The banner shows a yellowed silhouette of a boy (possibly Calvin, of Calvin & Hobbes) urinating on an EU flag. Sites such as this show the full power of the Internet as a propaganda medium cum travel service cum organizing tool. Oh, and nightlife directory."
- "Coffee shops-cum-meeting-spots dotted across the city are teeming (Equator, Blue Bottle and Saint Frank). Caffeine-fuelled, lactose-intolerant, macadamia milk latte-drinking young folk are journalling, manifesting, coding, ChatGPT-ing and pitching their ideas."
- "[Sam] Altman, the techno-optimist bent on commercialization, lost out to [Ilya] Sutskever, the Brutus cum mad scientist fearful that super-smart AI poses an existential risk to humanity."
- "Funnily enough, it wasn't that long ago that the year 2016 was derided for being overly romanticised, rooted in the “hope and change” ideals-cum-slogans used by the 2008 Obama presidential campaign before that all got blown away."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Old Latin com Latin cumlbor. English cum Learned borrowing from Latin cum.