mums
- 1Plural of mum.
The garden center sells hardy mums in every fall color, from rust to pale yellow.
Many of the seniors pinned giant homecoming mums, trailing ribbons and their names in glitter, to their jackets.
Note
Geography decides what mums are. In the US they are chrysanthemums, or the ribbon-heavy decorations girls wear at high school homecoming, built around a flower that is now usually silk. In informal Commonwealth and Irish speech they are mothers, as in the mums at the school gate. The older meanings, silence and a strong beer, are uncountable, so the plural never carries them.
mums is a form of mum
mum, noun: A mother, often used as a name when speaking to or about one's own. Full entry
- Forms
- mummums plural
- Spelling
- mum → mums: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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