Definitions for Sumer

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Sumer Su·mer

Spelling: [soo-mer]

IPA: /ˈsu mər/

Sumer is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in Sumer (emrsu).

Definitions for Sumer

noun

1. an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states of which the first were established possibly as early as 5000 b.c.: conquered by the Elamites and, about 2000 b.c., by the Babylonians; a number of its cities, as Ur, Uruk, Kish, and Lagash, are major archaeological sites in southern Iraq.

Examples for Sumer

It is not nearly so well developed in its polyphony as "Sumer is icumen in" or the works of the Frenchmen.

The early rulers of Sumer we know were all priests, kings only because they were chief priests.

The Sumer of 1855 found Miss Swain, then twenty-one years of age, teaching a few private pupils in the village.

Also, the Bible clearly places the Garden of Eden “eastward,” near the Mesopotamian empire of Sumer.

He built it of bricks of Sumer, and the timbers which he set in place were as strong as the dragon of the deep.

Let us take six gentlemen met together to learn the old thirteenth-century part-song, the round entitled ‘Sumer is icumen in.’

To begin with, China, like Sumer and like Egypt, was a land of city states.

Alesbery with whome he vsually spent his Sumer in Windesor park, and was welcom, for he was harmless and quet.

This might account for the existence of the celebrated example of early English polyphony, a "canon" called "Sumer is icumen in."

There is one that reminded me of the old English song—‘Sumer is i-kumen in—lude sing kuku.’