Čo znamená summon v angličtine a aká je definícia summon?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť summon výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

summon Význam & definícia

0 to order someone to come to or be present at a particular place, or to officially arrange a meeting of people:
- General Rattigan summoned reinforcements to help resist the attack.
- On 20 July, the town council was summoned to hear an emergency report on its finances.
- We were summoned to the headmaster's office.
1 to increase your courage or strength, especially with an effort:
- It took me six months to summon (up) the courage to ask him out for a drink.
2 to order someone come to a particular place, or to officially tell someone to be present:
- The president summoned an emergency meeting of his advisers.
- I have been summoned to appear in court.
- I couldn't summon any strength.
- He summoned up enough energy to prepare a revision of his novel.
- He recollects the streets of Paris when he was a student and summons up the faces of fellow students.
3 to officially tell someone to be in a particular place, or be present for a particular purpose:
- be summoned to sth Intelligence officials were summoned to Capitol Hill today to talk about global security threats.
4 → summons verb

Late last night, the French ambassador was summoned to the Foreign Office to discuss the crisis.
After her month's sick leave, she was summoned to see the company's welfare officer.
He summoned his troops.
We were summoned to the headmaster's office.
She summoned us to admire her new greenhouse.
The magistrate summoned the scrivener and asked him who the woman had been with when she had asked him to write a plaint.
He was incensed and summoned the villagers to appear before him.
They were summoned to the court to give advice.