Hume

American  

[hyoom, yoom] / hjum, jum /

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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Smith and his friend David Hume, the great irreligious Edinburgh philosopher, were among the leading lights in the Scottish Enlightenment of the late 18th century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Smith and Hume did not agree on every economic proposition, but they independently condemned the canker of the public debt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

The contents in the suitcase were "mistaken for a human originally, so they are very realistic in terms of looking like human remains," said Supt Linda Bradbury from the Hume Police District.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

David Hume has also received the same treatment on the Royal Mile...

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

Just before the fifteen-hundred-meter mark, Bobby Moch leaned into Don Hume and shouted, “Here’s California! Here’s where we take California!”

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown