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dumas

/ˈduməz/

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What does dumas mean?

noun

  1. plural of duma

proper noun

  1. A surname from French.
  2. Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870), French novelist and playwright
More meanings (5)

proper noun

  1. A city in Desha County, Arkansas.
  2. A town in Tippah County, Mississippi.
  3. An unincorporated community in Clark County, Missouri.
  4. A city, the county seat of Moore County, Texas.
  5. plural of Duma

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈduməz/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

Other dictionary pronunciations

/ˌduˈmɑ/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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All this is worthy of note, as it is essential for understanding the work of Alexandre Dumas fils.
René DoumicGeorge Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and WritingsTranslated by Alys HallardProject Gutenberg ebook #138
Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls.
VariousThe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial IssueProject Gutenberg ebook #206
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Alexandre Dumas, who recently wrote a short romance upon the same subject, only made a translation of an English work by that author.
Fulgence MarionWonderful Balloon Ascents; Or, The Conquest of the Skies A History of Balloons and Balloon VoyagesProject Gutenberg ebook #899
I suppose no woman could have been further in person, voice, and temperament from Dumas’ appealing heroine than the veteran actress who first acquainted me with her.
Willa CatherMy ÁntoniaProject Gutenberg ebook #242
Huxham mentions the fusion of the rectum and colon with the bladder, and similar instances are reported by Dumas and Baillie.
George M. (George Milbrey) Gould; Walter L. (Walter Lytle) PyleAnomalies and Curiosities of MedicineProject Gutenberg ebook #747