hump means "round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hump?

hump has 1 syllable: hump. In IPA it is /ˈhʌmp/.

What is another word for hump?

Close synonyms include hunch, hunch forward, hunch over, sleep together, roll in the hay. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hump a common word?

hump is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

hump — meaning, pronunciation and 3 definitions

verb

2 sensesAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward
Synonymshunch hunch forward hunch over
Broaderchange posture
2.
have sexual intercourse with
“This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm”
“Adam knew Eve”
“Were you ever intimate with this man?”
Synonymssleep together roll in the hay love make out make love sleep with get laid have sex know do it be intimate have intercourse have it away have it off
Broadercopulate
Narrowertake fornicate
archaism

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
“the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge”
“the hump of a camel”
“he stood on the rocky prominence”
“the occipital protuberance was well developed”
“the bony excrescence between its horns”
Synonymsbulge bump swelling gibbosity gibbousness jut prominence protuberance protrusion extrusion excrescence
Broaderprojection
Narrowerfrontal eminence occipital protuberance belly caput mogul nub snag wart

Other forms of hump

plural: humps·
past tense: humped·
present participle: humping·

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.

Questions about hump

What does hump mean?: hump means "round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.
How many syllables are in hump?: hump has 1 syllable: hump. In IPA it is /ˈhʌmp/.
What is another word for hump?: Close synonyms include hunch, hunch forward, hunch over, sleep together, roll in the hay. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.
Is hump a common word?: hump is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hump 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.

verb

2 sensesAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward
Synonymshunch hunch forward hunch over
Broaderchange posture
2.
have sexual intercourse with
“This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm”
“Adam knew Eve”
“Were you ever intimate with this man?”
Synonymssleep together roll in the hay love make out make love sleep with get laid have sex know do it be intimate have intercourse have it away have it off
Broadercopulate
Narrowertake fornicate
archaism

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
“the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge”
“the hump of a camel”
“he stood on the rocky prominence”
“the occipital protuberance was well developed”
“the bony excrescence between its horns”
Synonymsbulge bump swelling gibbosity gibbousness jut prominence protuberance protrusion extrusion excrescence
Broaderprojection
Narrowerfrontal eminence occipital protuberance belly caput mogul nub snag wart

Other forms of hump

plural: humps·
past tense: humped·
present participle: humping·

Questions about hump

What does hump mean?: hump means "round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.
How many syllables are in hump?: hump has 1 syllable: hump. In IPA it is /ˈhʌmp/.
What is another word for hump?: Close synonyms include hunch, hunch forward, hunch over, sleep together, roll in the hay. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.
Is hump a common word?: hump is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

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