summon

Speech parts

1. summon - Noun

2. summon - Verb

Meaning

To call, bid, or cite; to notify to come to appear; -- often with up.

To give notice to, or command to appear, as in court; to cite by authority; as, to summon witnesses.

To call upon to surrender, as a fort.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

marshal bid rally cite convene muster call up order call request gather assemble invite summons invoke
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Antonyms

drum dismiss avert adjourn

Hypernyms

garner make create call collect gather

Hyponyms

buzz page demand raise stir invoke

Phrases with the word

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Derivatives

summoned summoning

Anagrams

musmon nommus

Examples

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. Christopher Reeve

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. Arthur Miller

This is the place. Stand still, my steed, Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it. Edna O'Brien

With money one may command devils; without it, one cannot even summon a man. Chinese Proverb

One man can summon the future. Vulcan Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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