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Saltos de línea: sum¦mon
Pronunciación: /ˈsʌmən

Definición de summon en inglés:


[with object]
1Order (someone) to be present: a waiter was summoned
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send for, call for, ask for, request the presence of, demand the presence of;
ask, invite
archaic bid
1.1Authoritatively call on (someone) to be present as a defendant or witness in a law court: if the person summoned does not appear he may be arrested
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serve with a summons, summons, cite, serve with a citation, serve with a writ, subpoena
1.2Urgently demand (help): she summoned medical assistance
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1.3Call people to attend (a meeting): he summoned a meeting of head delegates
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  • He summoned a family meeting to plot a fightback.
2Make an effort to produce (a particular quality or reaction) from within oneself: she managed to summon up a smile
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  • Wanderers didn't strain every sinew and summon every ounce of effort to gain promotion just to spend a season in the Premiership playing for sympathy.
  • He summons every bit of his charisma to inject his character with life, and make his CIA agent a cinematic treat and based on reality in equal parts.
  • He said he was summoning his years of physical and spiritual training as a fighting monk.
muster, gather, collect, rally, call into action, mobilize, screw up
2.1 (summon something up) Call an image to mind: names that summon up images of far-off places
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  • As he searches his notebooks, images from earlier films are summoned up.
  • What distinguishes this work from her previous evocations of food is her absolute dedication to summoning it up intensely.
  • I know it constitutes an effort to summon up a sense of everyday life in a small town that is not precisely like every other in Germany.


Middle English: from Old French somondre, from Latin summonere 'give a hint', later 'call, summon', from sub- 'secretly' + monere 'warn'.

  • The source of summon is Latin summonere, originally meaning ‘give a hint’ but later used in the sense ‘call, summon’. It was formed from sub- ‘secretly’ and monere ‘warn’.



Example sentences
  • It means the summonable monsters have a shot of being in this game!
  • I've been surprised by the fact that the summonable beasts’ attacks are FMVs, as good-looking as the Advent Children movie, if not better.
  • Only 2 pets can be in a stable at any given time while a third is unstabled and summonable at the hunter's command.


Example sentences
  • Chaucer's habit of poking fun at pardoners and summoners is not so much an example of impiety as a way of demonstrating how much virtue he has to spare.
  • Certainly he is the guardian of ghosts, the lord of black ink, the prince of parchment and a summoner of souls.
  • Clocking in at just over a dozen jobs, players will have warriors, red, black, and white mages, paladins, thieves, samurai, ninjas, dragoons, monks, summoners, beast masters, and dark knights at their disposal.

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