cume

[ kyoom ]

noun

1. Marketing.
   1. cumulative/accumulated audience: the number of people reached by an advertising or broadcasting medium over a specified period of time:

      The station has a weekly cume of 5.5 million.

   2. the cumulative gross earnings from a movie, album, etc.:

      the cume for the Star Wars franchise.

2. Informal. a student's grade point average.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cume¹

By shortening and alteration of cumulative or accumulated

Example Sentences

Down goes the heavy lance; down goes the ponderous shield, suspended by a telamon: "Ohitarge grant cume peises al col!"

From Project Gutenberg

Possibly he has dropped out before hedde idrunke, but A has e cume out guste.

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Ase so here and in l. 144 appears to be an attempt to render si cume, A.

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I mean not to cume away, as they say I will, for feare of a marriage and I know not what.

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Co si sunt deus leveres nurit en ma meisun, cume cisne sunt blauns (Horn, 613 f.).

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