Noun: tumour
| Singular | tumour |
| Plural | tumours |
Sample Sentences
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At this time, and at another occasion when she feared she had a brain tumour, she “consulted Dr Google”. [2025 June 3, Nino Bucci, “Erin Patterson accepts beef wellington served at fatal lunch contained death cap mushrooms, triple murder trial hears”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2025:]
Nouns inflected like tumour
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English tumour, from Old French tumour, from Latin tumor (“swelling”), from tumeō (“bulge, swell”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Related to English thumb. See: Middle English Nouns '
tumour', Latin Nouns '
tumor', English Nouns '
thumb'.