cummer

[kuhm-er]

noun

Scot.

1. a godmother.

2. a girl or woman.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cummer¹

1275–1325; Middle English commare godmother < Anglo-French, Middle French commere < Late Latin commāter, equivalent to Latin com- com- + māter mother ¹

Example Sentences

Steve Cummer, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University, was able to extract high frequency electromagnetic data from a series of nearby antennas in the vicinity of the storm.

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This exhibition, initially curated by Jeffreen Hayes, travels from the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens in Jacksonville.

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Community Police Officer Brian Cummer and his son Matt Cummer helped design the beer.

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One painting in particular, “Portrait of a Youth in an Embroidered Vest” — a half-length portrait of a young man lent from the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens in Jacksonville, Fla. — didn’t make it into my review of that show, but I haven’t forgotten it.

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Each passage modifies the sound in a subtly different way as it travels towards the centre — roughly as if an equalizer with different settings were affecting the sound in each slice, explains senior author Steven Cummer, an electrical engineer at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

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