Mum

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Not verbalizing; silent.
  • interjection. Used as a command to stop speaking.
  • idiom. mum's the word Say nothing of the secret you know: Mum's the word on the surprise party.
  • verb-intransitive. To act or play in a pantomime.
  • verb-intransitive. To go merrymaking in a mask or disguise especially during a festival.
  • n. Chiefly British Mother.
  • n. A chrysanthemum.
  • n. A strong beer originally brewed in Brunswick, Germany.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Mother.
  • n. A term of respect for an older woman.
  • n. A chrysanthemum.
  • n. A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany.
  • adj. silent.
  • adj. secret.
  • interjection. stop speaking!
  • v. to act in a pantomime or dumb show
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Silent; not speaking.
  • interjection. Be silent! Hush!
  • n. Silence.
  • n. A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Silent.
  • To be silent; keep silence.
  • To mask; sport or make diversion in a mask: as, to go a mumming.
  • n. A strong ale popular in the seventeenth century and in use down to a later time.
  • n. A dialectal variant of ma'am for madam.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. secrecy
  • adj. failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to
  • n. of China
  • n. informal terms for a mother
  • Equivalent
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Variant
    mumming    mummed   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    silent    silence    act   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Brum    Krum    alum    become    brum    bum    chum    clum    come    crum   
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    dad    no-one    phil    well