RUMP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rump mean? 

• RUMP (noun)
  The noun RUMP has 3 senses:

1. the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks

2. fleshy hindquarters; behind the loin and above the round

3. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

  Familiarity information: RUMP used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUMP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

croup; croupe; hindquarters; rump

Hypernyms ("rump" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rump"):

haunch (the loin and leg of a quadruped)

Holonyms ("rump" is a part of...):

bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

quadruped (an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fleshy hindquarters; behind the loin and above the round

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("rump" is a kind of...):

cut of beef (cut of meat from beef cattle)

Meronyms (parts of "rump"):

rump steak (a steak cut from the rump)

rump roast (a cut of beef or veal from the fleshy hindquarters of the animal)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arse; ass; backside; behind; bottom; bum; buns; butt; buttocks; can; derriere; fanny; fundament; hind end; hindquarters; keister; nates; posterior; prat; rear; rear end; rump; seat; stern; tail; tail end; tooshie; tush

Context example:

are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?

Hypernyms ("rump" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Holonyms ("rump" is a part of...):

body; torso; trunk (the body excluding the head and neck and limbs)

 Context examples 

We had got fairly abreast of them now, the rumps of the horses exactly a-line and the fore wheels whizzing together.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Pregnancy loss at 6 weeks, 0 days to 9 weeks, 6 days of gestation of an embryo with crown-rump length less than 10 mm and no cardiac activity visible on ultrasonogram.

(Embryonic Loss, NCI Thesaurus)