resume

1. 1.

   short descriptive summary (of events)

   Synonymssketchsurvey

   Broadersummary
2. 2.

   a summary of your academic and work history

   Synonymscurriculum vitaeCV

   Broadersummary

Other forms of resume

plural

resumes·

past tense

resumed·

present participle

resuming·

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 resume

What does resume mean?

resume means "take up or begin anew". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in resume?

resume has 2 syllables: re-sume. The stress falls on "sume". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈzum/.

What is another word for resume?

Close synonyms include restart, re-start, take up, sum up, summarize. 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 resume a common word?

resume is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with resume?

2 words rhyme with resume. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.