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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To begin or take up again after interruption: resumed our dinner.
  2. v. To assume, take, or occupy again: The dog resumed its post by the door.
  3. v. To take on or take back again: resumed my original name.
  4. v. To begin again or continue after interruption.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To take again; take back.
  2. To assume or take up again.
  3. To take up again after interruption; begin again: as, to resume an argument or a discourse; to resume specie payments.
  4. To take; assume.
  5. To proceed after interruption, as in a speech; chiefly used in the introductory phrase to resume.

Wiktionary

  1. n. US A summary of education and employment experience.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To take back.
  2. v. To enter upon, or take up again.
  3. v. To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. take up or begin anew
  2. v. assume anew
  3. n. a summary of your academic and work history
  4. v. give a summary (of)
  5. v. return to a previous location or condition
  6. n. short descriptive summary (of events)

Etymologies

  1. From French résumé (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English resumen, from Old French resumer, from Latin resūmere : re-, re- + sūmere, to take; see em- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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hypernyms (12)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. bear on
  2. continue
  1. uphold
  2. carry on
  1. preserve
  2. take on
  1. takeover
  2. adopt
  1. assume
  2. summary
  1. sum-up
  2. change

same context (3)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. résumé
  1. overview
  1. summary

rhymes (37)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Bloom
  2. Blum
  3. Blume
  4. Doom
  5. Hume
  6. Khartoum
  7. abloom
  1. assume
  2. bloom
  3. boom
  4. broom
  5. consume
  6. coombe
  7. costume
  1. croom
  2. doom
  3. entomb
  4. exhume
  5. flume
  6. fume
  7. gloom
  1. groom
  2. kaboom
  3. legroom
  4. loom
  5. perfume
  6. plume
  7. presume
  1. reassume
  2. reaume
  3. room
  4. roome
  5. tomb
  6. vroom
  7. whom
  1. womb
  2. zoom

reverse dictionary (33)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. resume
  2. dereliction
  3. kickoff
  4. recalesce
  5. reprise
  6. stand
  1. resile
  2. resilience
  3. reopen
  4. well
  5. kick
  6. right of re-entry
  1. take-up
  2. continue
  3. field
  4. stability
  5. renew
  6. strut
  1. spool
  2. tableau
  3. take back
  4. reassume
  5. take
  6. slime mold
  1. come
  2. failure
  3. give
  4. go
  5. mercury-gatherer
  6. re-enter
  1. reform
  2. revive
  3. right

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  • myth It's interesting that the noun of this is resumption. Mar 31, 2009

  • Prolagus Razors pain you;
    Rivers are damp;
    Acids stain you;
    And drugs cause cramp.
    Guns aren’t lawful;
    Nooses give;
    Gas smells awful;
    You might as well live.

    ("Resume", by Dorothy Parker) Jun 17, 2008

  • oroboros Curriculum vitae; continue after cessation. Nov 21, 2007

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