Meaning of cum | Babel Free

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

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Examples

“He is too good an actor to need that sort of tomfoolery: the effect will be far better if he is a credible mining camp elder-cum-publican.”

“One driver-cum-fireman-cum-fitter looks after the three locomotives, [...].”

“The banner shows a yellowed silhouette of a boy (possibly Calvin, of Calvin & Hobbes) urinating on an EU flag. Sites such as this show the full power of the Internet as a propaganda medium cum travel service cum organizing tool. Oh, and nightlife directory.”

“Coffee shops-cum-meeting-spots dotted across the city are teeming (Equator, Blue Bottle and Saint Frank). Caffeine-fuelled, lactose-intolerant, macadamia milk latte-drinking young folk are journalling, manifesting, coding, ChatGPT-ing and pitching their ideas.”

“[Sam] Altman, the techno-optimist bent on commercialization, lost out to [Ilya] Sutskever, the Brutus cum mad scientist fearful that super-smart AI poses an existential risk to humanity.”

“Funnily enough, it wasn't that long ago that the year 2016 was derided for being overly romanticised, rooted in the “hope and change” ideals-cum-slogans used by the 2008 Obama presidential campaign before that all got blown away.”

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