summa cum laude definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: with highest honor; with the highest academic distinction; "a summa cum laude graduate" adv 1: with highest honor; "he graduated summa cum laude" Merriam Webster's adverb or adjective Etymology: Latin, with highest praise Date: 1882 with highest distinction < graduated summa cum laude > — compare cum laude, magna cum laude Oxford Reference Dictionary adv. & adj. esp. US (of ...
cum laude definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: with honor; with academic distinction; "a cum laude graduate" adv 1: with honor; "he graduated cum laude" Merriam Webster's adverb or adjective Etymology: New Latin, with praise Date: 1893 with distinction < graduated cum laude > — compare magna cum laude, summa cum laude
magna cum laude definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: with high honor; with high academic distinction; "a magna cum laude graduate" adv 1: with high honor; "he graduated magna cum laude" Merriam Webster's adverb or adjective Etymology: Latin Date: 1900 with great distinction < graduated magna cum laude > — compare cum laude, summa cum laude
cum definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the thick ... the male genital tract [syn: semen, seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come] Merriam Webster's I. conjunction Etymology: Latin, with; akin ... to form usually hyphenated phrases < a credible mining camp elder-cum-publican — G. B. Shaw > < Christian and Christian-cum-voodoo churches — David Binder > II. abbreviation cumulative Oxford Reference Dictionary ... in comb.) with, combined with, also used as (a bedroom-cum-study). Etymology: L Dictionary of Ro complement
-cum- definitions Collin's Cobuild Dictionary -cum- is put between two nouns to form a noun referring ... is partly one thing and partly another. ...a dining-room-cum-study... COMB in N-COUNT
titter-cum-totter definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Tetter-totter Tet"ter ... game of children; seesaw; -- called also titter-totter, and titter-cum-totter.
... or prefix to other words. Ainsworth remarks that con and cum habe the same signification, but that cum is used separately, and con in composition. Con and cum may be radically distinct words. The Irish comh, or coimh ... it seems to be con, changed into com. Ainsworth deduces cum from the Greek; for originally it was written cyn. But ...
... Gk perispomenos drawn around Webster's 1913 Dictionary Circumflex Cir"cum*flex, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Circumflexed; p. pr. & vb ... with a circumflex. --Walker. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Circumflex Cir"cum*flex, a. [Cf. L. circumflexus, p. p.] 1. Moving or ... and to other parts. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Circumflex Cir"cum*flex, n. [L. circumflexus a bending round, fr. circumflectere, circumflexum ...
... the large intestine Webster's 1913 Dictionary Caecum C[ae]"cum, n.; pl. C[ae]cums, L. C[ae]ca. [L ... intestine; -- called also the blind gut. Note: The c[ae]cum is comparatively small in man, and ends in a slender ... snood of a fish line. Blind gut. See C[AE]cum, n. (b) .
... definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Mesocaecum Mes`o*c[ae]"cum, n. (Anat.) [NL. See Meso-, and C[ae]cum.] The fold of peritoneum attached to the c[ae]cum. -- Mes`o*c[ae]"cal, a.
... various persons (genitive plural masculine of varius), in the phrase cum notis variorum with the notes of various persons Date: 1728 ... variant readings. --n. a variorum edition. Etymology: L f. editio cum notis variorum edition with notes by various (commentators): genit. pl ... Dictionary Variorum Va`ri*o"rum, a. [L., abbrev. fr. cum notis variorum with notes of various persons.] Containing notes by ...
... cumbrousness n. Etymology: CUMBER + -OUS Webster's 1913 Dictionary Cumbrous Cum"brous (k?m"br?s), a. 1. Rendering action or ... Giving trouble; vexatious. [Obs.] A clud of cumbrous gnats. --Spenser. -- Cum"brous*ly, adv. -- Cum"brous*ness, n. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a ...