Hume

American  

[hyoom, yoom] / hyum, yum /

noun

1. David, 1711–76, Scottish philosopher and historian.

2. John, 1937–2020, Northern Ireland politician: Nobel Peace Prize 1998.

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Hume British  

/ hjuːm /

noun

1. ( George ) Basil. 1923–99, English Roman Catholic Benedictine monk and cardinal; archbishop of Westminster (1976–99)

2. David. 1711–76, Scottish empiricist philosopher, economist, and historian, whose sceptic philosophy restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses. His works include A Treatise of Human Nature (1740), An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), Political Discourses (1752), and History of England (1754–62)

3. John. born 1937, Northern Ireland politician; leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) (1979–2001). Nobel peace prize jointly with David Trimble in 1998

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Other Word Forms

• Humism noun

Example Sentences

“Investors are feeling more optimism,” said Hans Humes, chief executive of Greylock Capital Management, an investment fund that owns a range of Venezuelan government bonds.

From The Wall Street Journal

“My Own Life,” Ms. Stalnaker argues, is far from being Hume’s pitch for literary immortality.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sunderland's Trai Hume squandered a golden opportunity when the unmarked defender headed over from 12 yards on the stroke of half-time.

From Barron's

David Hume, Adam Ferguson, William Robertson, Smith and their contemporaries weren’t riding a wave of orthodoxy but quietly turning a Calvinist culture into a laboratory for skepticism, commerce and civil society.

From The Wall Street Journal

“It is not a great disproportion between ourselves and others which produces envy, but on the contrary, a proximity,” wrote David Hume, the 18th-century philosopher and economist.

From The Wall Street Journal