Chum

Quick meaning: Chum is a noun meaning (intransitive) To share rooms with someone; to live together.

Meaning

(intransitive) To share rooms with someone; to live together.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To lodge (somebody) with another person or people.
2. (intransitive) To make friends; to socialize.
3. (transitive, Scotland, informal) To accompany.
4. (fishing, ambitransitive) To cast chum into the water to attract fish.
5. (fishing, chiefly Canada, US) A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water as groundbait to attract predator fish, such as sharks.
6. (dated) A friend; a pal.
7. (dated) A roommate, especially in a college or university.

Example Sentences

Henry Wotton and John Donne began to be friends when, as boys, they chummed together at Oxford, where Donne had gone at the age of twelve years.

Field had a 'chum,' or room-mate, whose visage was suggestive to the 'Sophs;' it invited experiment; it held out opportunity for their peculiar deviltry.

A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.

That made Thad think of Mark Twain, and he wondered whether the illustrious Tom Sawyer and his chum, Huckleberry Finn, had ever arranged a more fetching reception committee than this one[…]

Word Forms

• chums
• chumming
• chummed

Synonyms for chum

Depending on context, synonyms include billy, bredrin, bruv, bud, buddo, buddy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include buddy, crony, brother, sidekick, pal, friend.

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