Explore Sumer through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
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Sumer meaning
A historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq.
Synonyms of Sumer
Using Sumer
- The main meaning on this page is: A historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq.
- Useful related words include: geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region.
- In the example corpus, sumer often appears in combinations such as: of sumer, sumer is, ancient sumer.
Context around Sumer
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sumer
- In this selection, "sumer" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ancient, company, result, jam, singh and group stand out and add context to how "sumer" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a result sumer and akkad and advisory company sumer group. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sumer" sits close to words such as abdulai, abhinandan and abhor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sumer
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
As a result, the political history of Sumer is one of almost constant warfare. (14 words)
The cities of Sumer could not maintain remote, long-distance colonies by military force. (14 words)
South West accountancy firm Monahans has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by business advisory company Sumer Group. (18 words)
Newton 's etching was probably a comment on Pitt's threat (realized the following month) to suspend habeas corpus The word fart in Middle English occurs in " Sumer Is Icumen In ", where one sign of summer is "bucke uerteþ" (the buck farts). (42 words)
Battle formations on a fragment of the Stele of the Vultures The almost constant wars among the Sumerian city-states for 2000 years helped to develop the military technology and techniques of Sumer to a high level. (37 words)
In the ancient Near East this began with the rise of Sumer in the 4th millennium BC, with India and China starting to use bronze around the same time; everywhere it gradually spread across regions. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
In February, six persons, which included a priest and three nuns from the Bongaigaon Diocese, were killed when the vehicle they were travelling in collided with a truck at Sumer.
Wasting no time swaggering into summer, they have also played festivals such as Rolling Lou’s California and Miami, as well as Sumer Jam Houston.
During Digvijaya Singh’s tenure as the CM, Sumer Singh had been appointed as a member of the state Public Service Commission.
South West accountancy firm Monahans has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by business advisory company Sumer Group.
A considerable amount of Babylonian literature was translated from Sumerian originals, and the language of religion and law long continued to be written in the old agglutinative language of Sumer.
As a result, Sumer and Akkad had a surplus of agricultural products but was short of almost everything else, particularly metal ores, timber and building stone, all of which had to be imported.
As a result, the political history of Sumer is one of almost constant warfare.
Battle formations on a fragment of the Stele of the Vultures The almost constant wars among the Sumerian city-states for 2000 years helped to develop the military technology and techniques of Sumer to a high level.
Elam and the northern part of Mesopotamia ( Assyria Subartu ) were also subjugated, and rebellions in Sumer were put down.
He also boasted of having subjugated the "four quarters" — the lands surrounding Akkad to the north (Assyria), the south (Sumer), the east (Elam) and the west ( Martu ).
He was the son of En-men-dur-ana the Sumerian Enoch, and king of Sumer until the flood swept over the land.
In the ancient Near East this began with the rise of Sumer in the 4th millennium BC, with India and China starting to use bronze around the same time; everywhere it gradually spread across regions.
King Sargon, for example, conquered all the cities of Sumer, some cities in Mari, and then went to war with northern Syria.
Newton 's etching was probably a comment on Pitt's threat (realized the following month) to suspend habeas corpus The word fart in Middle English occurs in " Sumer Is Icumen In ", where one sign of summer is "bucke uerteþ" (the buck farts).
Sumer rose up again with the Third Dynasty of Ur in the late 22nd century BC, and ejected the Gutians from southern Mesopotamia.
The cities of Sumer could not maintain remote, long-distance colonies by military force.
The first known pesticide was elemental sulfur dusting used in ancient Sumer about 4,500 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia.
The oldest surviving piece of six-part music is the English rota Sumer is icumen in (c. 1240).
These seals contain a set of proto-cuneiform signs which appear to be writings or symbols of the name of city-states in ancient Sumer.
The song sung by the cultists of Summerisle at the end of the film, " Sumer Is Icumen In " is a mid-13th-century song about nature in spring.
Common combinations with sumer
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of sumer 7×
- sumer is 4×
- ancient sumer 3×
- in sumer 2×
- sumer in 2×