English Explanatory Dictionary

cumberworld

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Someone who, or something which, is an encumbrance on the world; a useless person or thing.

Word forms

cumberworld cumberworlds cumber-world

Etymology

From Middle English combre-world, combreworldes pl, from the phrase *combren the world; equivalent to cumber + world.

Synonyms

cumberground

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