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# summon

«summon» in Mova's school dictionary: **To officially order someone to come: summoned to the head…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (summon, summons, summoned, summoning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To officially order someone to come: summoned to the head teacher's office. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/summon/#m1)

2) To call for help: summon an ambulance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/summon/#m2)

3) To gather up a feeling or strength inside you: summon up courage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/summon/#m3)

4) (stories) To call up a spirit or creature by magic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/summon/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and fantasy, wizards summon dragons or spirits. In formal school and legal language, a pupil can be summoned to the office or a person summoned to court. In safety, «summon help» means call for help. Phrases: summon up courage, summon help, be summoned to.

### examples

- The head teacher summoned me to her office. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/summon/#x1)
- He summoned help by blowing his whistle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/summon/#x2)
- She summoned up the courage to sing alone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/summon/#x3)
- The wizard summoned a storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/summon/#x4)
- The king summoned his knights to the castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/summon/#x5)
- Press the button to summon the lift. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/summon/#x6)
- The learned Selim was summoned immediately. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/summon/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: summoned. «A summons» is a noun meaning an official order to come (especially to court); its plural is summonses. Do not confuse with salmon.

### In the corpora

- [And Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.385/)
- [And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.670/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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