How to pronounce“chum”in English
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Definitions of “chum”
A friend; a pal.
“He looked down upon the girl beside him—a daughter of the desert walking across the face of a dead world with a son of the jungle. He smiled at the thought. He wished that he had had a sister, and that she had been like this girl. What a bully chum she would have been!”
A roommate, especially in a college or university.
“Field had a 'chum,' or room-mate, whose visage was suggestive to the 'Sophs;' it invited experiment; it held out opportunity for their peculiar deviltry.”
To share rooms with someone; to live together.
“Henry Wotton and John Donne began to be friends when, as boys, they chummed together at Oxford, where Donne had gone at the age of twelve years.”
To lodge (somebody) with another person or people.
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