Meaning & use
Cum
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combined with; also serving as, used to link two functions or roles of the same thing.
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The small apartment has a kitchen-cum-dining room to save space.
The building operates as a museum-cum-gift shop.
A note on using this word
Borrowed directly from Latin, where "cum" simply means "with"; in English it survives mainly in hyphenated compound nouns.
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combined withalso used as
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