summons
/ˈsʌ.mənz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A call to do something, especially to come.
Example Sentences
- "He sent to summon the seditious, and to offer pardon[…]; but neither summons nor pardon was any thing regarded."
- "this summons […] unfit either to dispute or disobey"
- "special summonses by the king"
- "It was more than a week after his introduction to Carrados that Lieutenant Hollyer had a summons to present himself at The Turrets again. He found Mr Carlyle already there and the two friends awaiting his arrival."
- "Four summonses were brought recently on behalf of St. Pancras Borough Council against the British Transport Commission in respect of the emission of smoke by locomotives standing at Camden Motive Power Depot. (The summonses were dismissed)"
- "It proposes that those held in the prototype Selfridges cells be kept for a maximum of four hours to have their identity confirmed and be charged, summonsed or given a fine."
Etymology
From Middle English somouns (“order or command to do something”), borrowed from Old French sumunce (modern French semonce), from Vulgar Latin *summonsa, a noun use of the feminine past participle of summoneō, summonēre (“to summon”).