rums
SayRUMZ/ɹʌmz/
- 1Plural of rum.
The distillery's aged rums won several awards at the festival.
Dark and spiced rums lined the top shelf behind the bar.
Note
A plural that exists only because the spirit can be counted. As liquor in general, rum is a mass noun with no plural. Rums appears when you mean servings (two rums, please) or kinds and brands (aged rums, spiced rums). The same plural once served the obsolete slang noun for a strange person or a country parson, and the dated British use for any odd person or thing.
rums is a form of rum
rum, noun: An alcoholic spirit distilled from fermented cane sugar and molasses. Full entry
- Forms
- rumrums plural
- Spelling
- rum → rums: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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