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say it: HYOO-mur
humour is a noun and verb meaning "a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling". It is pronounced /ˈhjumɚ/ — HYOO-mur. It carries 7 recorded senses.
a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
(Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state
“the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile”
physiology · Middle Ages · antiquity
the liquid parts of the body
the quality of being funny
“I fail to see the humor in it”
the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous
“she didn't appreciate my humor”
“you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for humour come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.