jumbo
/ˈd͡ʒʌmboʊ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.38 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Especially large or powerful.
noun
A wide roll of machine-trimmed paper, ready to be cut into smaller widths.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Ellipsis of mumbo jumbo (“a deity or other supernatural being worshipped by certain West African peoples; an idol representing such a being”).
Example Sentences
- "a jumbo helping"
- "At Bucyrus, Ohio, M. C. Coulter this season has demonstrated that he can grow a nice crop of the jumbo variety of peanuts."
- "Of the receipts of unshelled peanuts only a few extras are now being bought, the remainder being divided rather equally between jumbo and fancy grades."
- "Not only did Jumbo-mania make [Phineas Taylor] Barnum a jumbo profit, but the word "jumbo" entered the English language."
- "As the number of judges on an appellate court increases, the court evolves into what I call a "jumbo court." First, the dynamics of a jumbo court are such that, as the court grows larger, the productivity of individual judges on the court declines."
- "As the name suggests, jumbo frames are frames with a larger size compared to the standard MTU [maximum transmission unit]. Sending data in jumbo frames means there are fewer frames sent through the network, resulting in fewer IRQs [interrupt requests] at the receiving end. This obviously generates big improvements in terms of bandwidth and CPU [central processing unit] cycles."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈd͡ʒʌmboʊ/
- British English: /ˈd͡ʒʌmbəʊ/