Standard Lemma guide

cum

adj · name · noun · prep · verb · 11 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /kʌm/
  • kŭm
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ʌm
  • homophone: come
  • /kʊm/
  • General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ʊm
  • CMU ARPABET: K AH1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Clipping of cumulative.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, not-comparable, vulgar

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

Synonym of North American Union.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: humorous, vulgar

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: North American Union

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Semen.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: colloquial, uncountable, vulgar

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: jizz, spunk, spooge, nut, skeet, junk, baby batter, baby gravy, balljuice, boy juice, cock juice, cock snot, come, cream, creme, cum, cumload, cumshot, cumwad, dick juice, dick milk, dick snot, ejaculate, fuckjuice, girl juice, gruel, jism, jissom, knuckle children, load, love custard, love juice, mad milk, man juice, man milk, milk, muck, scum, seed, seminal fluid, sperm, spoof, splooge, sprog, spurt, wad, white pee

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Female ejaculatory discharge.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: colloquial, uncountable, vulgar

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

An ejaculation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: colloquial, uncountable, vulgar

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

Abbreviation of cubic metre.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, uncountable, vulgar

Examples

  • The density of cement is 1440 kg/cum.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

prep

Meaning 7

Used in indicating a thing or person which has two or more roles, functions, or natures, or which has changed from one to another.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

verb

Meaning 8

To have an orgasm, to feel the sensation of an orgasm.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: colloquial, slang, vulgar

Examples

  • Despite claims to the contrary, a woman can cum from anal sex alone.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: climax

Antonyms: none provided

9

verb

Meaning 9

To ejaculate.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: colloquial, slang, vulgar

Examples

  • Some men cum as much as 10 milliliters.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: blow one's load, blow one's wad, blow a nut, breed, bust, bust a nut, come, cream, cum, ejaculate, explode, get off, go off, jizz, juice, nut, pop, shoot a rope, shoot off, shoot one's load, shoot one's wad, skeet, spray one's shorts, sprog, spoof, splooge, spooge, spunk, spurt

Antonyms: none provided

10

verb

Meaning 10

Eye dialect spelling of come (“move from further to nearer; arrive”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, colloquial, pronunciation-spelling, vulgar

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: semen, seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, come

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour

Narrower terms: milt

History

Etymology

An acronym of Canada, United States, and Mexico; sequenced north to south and humorously made to spell out "cum."

Variant of come, attested (in the basic sense "come, move from further to nearer, arrive") since Old English. The sexual sense of come is attested since the 1650s. In this sense and spelling, attested from 1970s.

Learned borrowing from Latin cum (“with”).

Across languages

Translations

198 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: թոխում (tʻoxum) — slang: semen
  • Asturian: llimu — slang: semen
  • Asturian: espelma — slang: semen
  • Asturian: semen — slang: semen
  • Belarusian: спэрма (sperma) — slang: semen
  • Belarusian: кнура (knura) — slang: semen
  • Bengali: মাল (mal) — slang: semen
  • Catalan: llet — slang: semen
  • Catalan: lleterada — slang: semen
  • Catalan: escorreguda — slang: semen
  • Catalan: semen — slang: semen
  • Catalan: sement — slang: semen
  • Catalan: esperma — slang: semen
  • Chinese Mandarin: 精液 (jīngyè) — slang: semen
  • Czech: mrdka — slang: semen
  • Danish: sperm — slang: semen
  • Danish: sæd — slang: semen
  • Dutch: kwakje — slang: semen
  • Esperanto: ĉuro — slang: semen
  • Estonian: jobi — slang: semen
  • Estonian: pauk — slang: semen
  • Estonian: sperma — slang: semen
  • Faroese: spin — slang: semen
  • Finnish: mälli — slang: semen
  • Finnish: flode — slang: semen
  • French: foutre — slang: semen
  • French: jute — slang: semen
  • French: sirop de cordum — slang: semen
  • Georgian: თესლი (tesli) — slang: semen
  • German: Sperma — slang: semen
  • German: Wichse — slang: semen
  • Greek: χύσι (chýsi) — slang: semen
  • Greek: χύσιμο (chýsimo) — slang: semen
  • Hebrew: שפיך (shpich) — slang: semen
  • Hungarian: sperma — slang: semen
  • Hungarian: geci — slang: semen
  • Icelandic: brundur — slang: semen
  • Indonesian: peju — slang: semen
  • Italian: sborra — slang: semen
  • Japanese: 精液 (seieki) — slang: semen
  • Japanese: 精子 (seishi) — slang: semen
  • Korean: 좆물 (jonmul) — slang: semen
  • Korean: 정액 (jeong'aek) — slang: semen
  • Latin: serum — slang: semen
  • Macedonian: сперма (sperma) — slang: semen
  • Macedonian: семе (seme) — slang: semen
  • Macedonian: свршка (svrška) — slang: semen
  • Macedonian: дрканица (drkanica) — slang: semen
  • Malagasy: ranon-tsirilahy — slang: semen
  • Neapolitan: sfaccimma — slang: semen
  • Norwegian: sperm — slang: semen
  • Norwegian: sæd — slang: semen
  • Polish: spust — slang: semen
  • Portuguese: esperma — slang: semen
  • Portuguese: gozo — slang: semen
  • Portuguese: porra — slang: semen
  • Portuguese: leite — slang: semen
  • Romanian: sloboz — slang: semen
  • Romanian: smecleu — slang: semen
  • Russian: се́мя (sémja) — slang: semen
  • Russian: спе́рма (spérma) — slang: semen
  • Russian: молофья́ (molofʹjá) — slang: semen
  • Russian: конча́ (končá) — slang: semen
  • Russian: малафья́ (malafʹjá) — slang: semen
  • Serbo-Croatian: svršotina — slang: semen
  • Serbo-Croatian: svrš — slang: semen
  • Sicilian: sburru — slang: semen
  • Sicilian: ogghiu di sbrigghiu — slang: semen
  • Sicilian: spacchiu — slang: semen
  • Slovak: mrdka — slang: semen
  • Spanish: corrida — slang: semen
  • Spanish: acabada — slang: semen
  • Spanish: semen — slang: semen
  • Spanish: leche — slang: semen
  • Spanish: lefa — slang: semen
  • Spanish: mecos — slang: semen
  • Spanish: acabadura — slang: semen
  • Spanish: cabadura — slang: semen
  • Spanish: guasca — slang: semen
  • Swedish: sagge — slang: semen
  • Swedish: säd — slang: semen
  • Tagalog: tamod — slang: semen
  • Turkish: döl — slang: semen
  • Turkish: atmık — slang: semen
  • Ukrainian: сперма (sperma) — slang: semen
  • Ukrainian: сім'я (simʺja) — slang: semen
  • Vietnamese: tinh dịch — slang: semen
  • Catalan: escorreguda — slang: female ejaculatory discharge
  • Catalan: ejaculació — slang: female ejaculatory discharge
  • Chinese Mandarin: 潮吹 (cháochuī) — slang: female ejaculatory discharge
  • Chinese Mandarin: 淫水 (yǐnshuǐ) — slang: female ejaculatory discharge
  • Chinese Mandarin: 出水 (chūshuǐ) — slang: female ejaculatory discharge
  • Finnish: pilluneste — slang: female ejaculatory discharge
  • Finnish: pillumehu — slang: female ejaculatory discharge
  • Japanese: 潮吹き (shiofuki) — slang: female ejaculatory discharge
  • Polish: wytrysk — slang: female ejaculatory discharge
  • Portuguese: gozo — slang: female ejaculatory discharge
  • Sicilian: spacchiu — slang: female ejaculatory discharge
  • Spanish: corrida — slang: female ejaculatory discharge
  • Turkish: zevk suyu — slang: female ejaculatory discharge
  • Chinese Mandarin: 兼 (jiān) — Translations
  • Chinese Mandarin: 暨 (jì) — Translations
  • French: soit — Translations
  • Italian: trattino — Translations
  • Japanese: 兼 (ken) — Translations
  • Korean: 겸 (gyeom) — Translations
  • Polish: i — Translations
  • Russian: с (s) — Translations
  • Russian: совмещённый (sovmeščónnyj) — Translations
  • Vietnamese: kiêm — Translations
  • Arabic: قَذْف الْمَنْي (qaḏf al-many) — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Armenian: թափել (tʻapʻel) — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Azerbaijani: qurtarmaq — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Azerbaijani: boşalmaq — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Bengali: মাল ফেলা (mal phela) — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Catalan: escórrer-se — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Catalan: ejacular — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Chinese Mandarin: 射 (shè) — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Chinese Mandarin: 射精 (shèjīng) — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Chinese Mandarin: 出水 (chūshuǐ) — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Czech: stříkat — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Czech: udělat se — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Danish: ejakulere — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Danish: komme — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Dutch: klaarkomen — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Dutch: komen — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Esperanto: orgasmi — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Esperanto: ĉuri — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Estonian: orgasmi saama — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Estonian: pauku lahti saama — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Estonian: lahti saama — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Estonian: jobistama — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Estonian: tulema — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Faroese: koma — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Finnish: saada — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Finnish: tulla — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Finnish: laueta — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • French: venir — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • French: juter — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • French: éjaculer — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • French: jouir — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • French: balancer la purée — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Georgian: მითესლება (mitesleba) — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • German: abspritzen — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • German: kommen — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Greek: χύνω (chýno) — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Ancient Greek: χέω (khéō) — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Hebrew: גָּמַר (gamár) — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Hungarian: elélvez — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Hungarian: elmegy — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Hungarian: elsül — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Icelandic: fá það — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Indonesian: crot — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Indonesian: keluar — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Italian: venire — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Italian: eiaculare — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Italian: sborrare — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Japanese: イく (iku) — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Japanese: 射精する (shasei suru) — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Korean: 싸다 (ssada) — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Latin: eiaculare — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Macedonian: свршува (svršuva) — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Macedonian: ејакули́ра (ejakulíra) — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Malagasy: mitsitsitra — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Malagasy: mitsitra — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Malay: pancut — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Norwegian: ejakulere — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Norwegian: sæde — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Polish: dochodzić — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Polish: dojść — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Portuguese: ejacular — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Portuguese: gozar — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Portuguese: esporrar — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Portuguese: vir-se — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Romanian: slobozi — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Romanian: își da drumul — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Russian: конча́ть (končátʹ) — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Russian: ко́нчить (kónčitʹ) — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Russian: эякули́ровать (ejakulírovatʹ) — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Serbo-Croatian: svršiti — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Sicilian: sburrari — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Sicilian: vèniri — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Sicilian: sbrijinziari — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Slovak: striekať — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Spanish: venir — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Spanish: irse — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Spanish: venirse — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Spanish: eyacular — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Spanish: correrse — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Spanish: acabar — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Spanish: terminar — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Swedish: komma — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Thai: แตก (dtɛ̀ɛk) — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Thai: น้ําแตก (náam-dtɛ̀ɛk) — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Turkish: boşalmak — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Turkish: gelmek — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Turkish: attırmak — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
  • Vietnamese: xuất tinh — slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate