Definitions for Summons

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Summons sum·mons

Spelling: [suhm-uh nz]

IPA: /ˈsʌm ənz/

Summons is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in Summons (mmnossu).

Definitions for Summons

noun

1. an authoritative command, message, or signal by which one is summoned.
2. a request, demand, or call to do something:
3. Law. a call or citation by authority to appear before a court or a judicial officer. the writ by which the call is made.
4. an authoritative call or notice to appear at a specified place, as for a particular purpose or duty.
5. a call issued for the meeting of an assembly or parliament.

verb (used with object)

1. to serve with a summons; summon.
2. to call upon to do something specified.
3. to call for the presence of, as by command, message, or signal; call.
4. to call or notify to appear at a specified place, especially before a court:
5. to authorize or order a gathering of; call together by authority, as for deliberation or action:
6. to call into action; rouse; call forth (often. followed by up):

Origin of Summons

1250-1300; Middle English somons Anglo-French; Old French somonse Vulgar Latin *summonsa, for Latin summonita, feminine past participle of summonēre; see summon

Examples for Summons

On July 8, a summons was sent to Zhang alerting her to the lawsuit, and on July 11, Nan Shi lost her job.

At last there was the summons to saddle, and Lauzanne was brought into the stall by Dixon.

She had been summoned to the last meal of the day, but had forgotten the summons.

They say, ‘If we catch you out there, we’re going to write you a summons.

Du Maurier was one of the great names of British theatre, she regarded ‘a summons’ from him to be a ‘bugle call from Olympus.’

This summons all the proximate Beyoncé voters, as we reply in a full-throated roar, “ALLLLLL THE SINGLE LAAAAADIES!”

In Oxyana, the performances he summons from his interview subjects are truly heartrending.

Seth made no outcry; he knew what the summons meant, and he was content.

She had obeyed my summons like a dog who remembered a former discipline.

Hold thyself in readiness to come down upon the first summons.