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# rum

«rum» in Mova's school dictionary: **Strange or odd: «a rum little man»** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (rum, rummer, rummest); noun (rums)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (old use, British) Strange or odd: «a rum little man». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rum/#m1)

2) A strong drink made from sugar cane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rum/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales and British talk, something strange or puzzling, not the drink; «rum» is an old word for odd

### examples

- The pedlar was a rum old fellow with a hat full of feathers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rum/#x1)
- It is a rum thing that the door was open. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rum/#x2)
- Captain Hook drank rum from a bottle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rum/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rum» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rum/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.