lumpnoun [ C ]
uk/lʌmp/us/lʌmp/lump noun [ C ] (PIECE)
C2 a piece of a solid substance, usually with no particular shape:
a lump of coal
a sugar lump
You don't want lumps in the sauce.
UK informal a separate large amount:
I'll be getting the insurance money in two lumps.
More examples
- My clay pot ended up as just a shapeless lump.
- He had a lump on his head the size of an egg.
- There were lumps of mud all over the carpet.
- He ate an enormous lump of cheese.
- My custard always has lumps in it.
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Masses and large amounts of things
- accumulation
- an embarrassment of riches idiom
- any number of things idiom
- backlog
- battery
- boatload
- bolus
- clot
- deluge
- fund
- lashing
- lather
- outpouring
- panoply
- plethora
- predominance
- preponderance
- sheet
- shower
- thousand
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lump noun [ C ] (IN THE BODY)
a hard swelling found in or on the body, especially because of illness or injury:
She found a lump in her breast.
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Swellings & lumps
- acoustic neuroma
- adenoma hyperplastic nodules
- angioma
- aortic aneurysm
- atypical lipoma
- goitre
- inflammation
- inflammatory
- leiomyoma
- lymphoedema
- mastitis
- neoplasm
- neoplastic
- oedema
- pancreatic mass
- polyp
- puffy
- swelling
- swollen
- turgid
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lump noun [ C ] (PERSON)
informal a heavy, awkward, stupid person:
Come on, you great lump - get up from that sofa and do some work!
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Stupid and silly people
- a right one idiom
- airhead
- asshole
- berk
- birdbrain
- dolt
- doofus
- dork
- duffer
- dullard
- mouth-breather
- muggins
- muppet
- mutt
- need
- silly billy idiom
- simpleton
- stupid
- thicko
- tosser
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Idiom(s)
bring a lump to/have a lump in your throat
take your lumps
lumpverb
uk/lʌmp/us/lʌmp/informallump it
to accept a situation or decision although you do not like it:
The decision has been made, so if Tom doesn't like it, he can lump it.
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Tolerating and enduring
- bear
- bear with sb
- bearable
- bide
- come to terms with sth idiom
- endurance
- philosophically
- resign yourself to sth
- ride
- ride sth out
- sit
- sit sth out
- stand for sth
- stew
- stew (in your own juice) idiom
- stick
- stick it out
- stick with it idiom
- stick with sth/sb
- sweat it out idiom
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Phrasal verb(s)
lump sb/sth together