Hum

Quick meaning: Hum is a noun meaning A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.

Meaning

A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.

More Meanings

1. An often indistinct sound resembling human humming.
2. Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive.
3. (UK, slang) Unpleasant odour.
4. (intransitive) To make a sound from the vocal cords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.
5. (with article) A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people.
6. (dated) An imposition or hoax; humbug.
7. (obsolete) A kind of strong drink.

Example Sentences

to hum a tune

the shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums

We are humming happily along with the music.

you do provide me hum enough , And lour to bouse with

Word Forms

• hums
• humming
• hummed

Synonyms for hum

Depending on context, synonyms include bombinate, buzz, drone, thrum, whirr, whizz.

Antonyms for hum

Common opposites include snap.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include buzz, thrum, seethe, hmm, beep, noise.

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