gumption
Anlam (İngilizce)
- (Ireland, UK, uncountable, usually) Common sense, initiative, resourcefulness.
- (US, uncountable, usually) Boldness of enterprise; aggressiveness or initiative.
- (US, uncountable, usually) Energy of body and mind, enthusiasm.
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/ˈɡʌmpʃən/
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In summary
Borrowed from Scots gumption (“common sense, shrewdness; drive, initiative”); further etymology unknown, possibly connected with Middle English gome (“attention, heed”), from Old Norse gaumr (“attention, heed”), from Proto-Germanic *gaumō. English cognates include gaum (“to comprehend, understand”) and goam (“to recognize, see”).
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