Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The proportion of cattle or sheep suitable to any pasture, or vice versa: as, a soum of sheep, as many sheep as a certain amount of pasturage will support; a soum of grass or land, as much as will pasture one cow or five sheep.
  • To calculate and determine what number of cattle or sheep a certain piece of land will support.

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  • noun Plural form of som.

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  • Gantuya is 41 years-old and lives with her husband and two children in Har-Horin "soum" (an administrative district) of Uvurhangai province, Mongolia.

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  • HOLLY i love cris angel he is like the best i love all his trivcks but he dosen aways pic the same person mabe u people r just wacthing the same appsode but like dud he i s soo raddd and soum i wacth his show like every wed at 10: 00 its like asoum i cant waite to meet him in person

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  • Uzbekistani soum per US dollar - 1,219.58 (2006), 1,020

    The 2007 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • The construction approval from Mongolia's Energy Regulatory Authority and a land-use contract from the governor of Khanbogd soum township, which includes Oyu Tolgoi, are key to the plan to import electricity from China to operate the Oyu Tolgoi complex during its initial four years of commercial production.

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  • A vast number of persons question me, as to whether I shall fast (_soum_) to-morrow; and a Touarick goes bolt up to the Governor, and says, to his Excellency, pointing to where I am sitting, -- "Does this (man) fast?"

    Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

  • The meeting was well attended, all soum leaders embraced the project with enthusiasm.

    WN.com - Articles related to Crocodiles Can Surf Across Oceans, Scientists Say 2010

  • A meeting was held in Mongolia's capital on the 8th January to discuss the artificial nest project with soum (district) leaders and local government officials.

    WN.com - Articles related to Crocodiles Can Surf Across Oceans, Scientists Say 2010

  • The round steel object, with a 7. 5-meter diameter and with the number 02728 on it, that fell from the sky in Buren soum of Tuv province on February 19 was most possibly a dead satellite, according to experts in the team who brought it to Ulaanbaatar on Tuesday.

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  • A meeting was held in Mongolia's capital on the 8th January to discuss the artificial nest project with soum (district) leaders and local government officials.

    WN.com - Articles related to Crocodiles Can Surf Across Oceans, Scientists Say 2010

  • The meeting was well attended, all soum leaders embraced the project with enthusiasm.

    WN.com - Articles related to Crocodiles Can Surf Across Oceans, Scientists Say 2010

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