umpire• Mack was thrown out of the game for hitting an umpire.• An umpire was appointed to determine the rent of a mill.• I yelled and I screamed at umpires, at everybody, and they all jumped back.• Every man was his own umpire.• I thought he was out, but the umpire called him safe.• A case requiring action by the umpire before the batsman needed to correct the wicket?• He was chosen as one of the umpires in a musicalcontest between Apollo and Pan.
umpire• Or what about the Bosporus; the last traditionalboat used to umpire the races at the regatta.• At their request he umpired their boat-races on the River Wear.
Originumpire1
(1500-1600)a numpire, mistaken for an umpire; numpire“umpire” from Old Frenchnonper“not equal”, from non- + per“equal” (from Latinpar)