Used to evoke spiritual unity and interpersonal harmony, with varying degrees of sincerity or sarcasm, as referring to the folk song.
Used in a Sentence
kumbaya
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for kumbaya.
Editorial note
This relates to the term I used in another HN thread - the Kumbaya Approach to project management.
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Definitions2
Parts of speech1
Quick take
Used to evoke spiritual unity and interpersonal harmony, with varying degrees of sincerity or sarcasm, as referring to the folk song.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of kumbaya gathered in one view.
Alternative letter-case form of kumbaya. [Used to evoke spiritual unity and interpersonal harmony, with varying degrees of sincerity or sarcasm, as referring to the folk song.]
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for kumbaya.
noun
Used to evoke spiritual unity and interpersonal harmony, with varying degrees of sincerity or sarcasm, as referring to the folk song.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of kumbaya. [Used to evoke spiritual unity and interpersonal harmony, with varying degrees of sincerity or sarcasm, as referring to the folk song.]
Example sentences
This relates to the term I used in another HN thread - the Kumbaya Approach to project management.
I don't care what the community guidelines are in that respect if they tell me to be kumbaya positive.
Someone else mentioned kumbaya project management, which I agree is the other extreme and just as harmful.
This maybe a bit of a kumbaya, everyone hold hands argument, but I'm going to make it.
I don't think this is a namby pamby kumbaya question either but is directly relevant to our long term security.
Sing kumbaya around the campfire as to not offend Russiophile HN'ers?
No matter how much we talk, hold hands or sing kumbaya we can't have both.
It makes us kumbaya a bit, maybe democracy could have fixed it, but all of us were (and are) almost entirely powerless in representative government.
I feel like my passion for open source today springs from that same dream of a global kumbaya we were promised decades ago.
But this is HN so I'm sure people think it's more important to make friends and sing Kumbaya than actually stopping ridiculously bad practices.
There is no doubt that any competent developer can handle all these tasks but it won't be the kumbaya singing utopian happy habitable code paradise that this blogger is seeking.
The world wasn't kumbaya before colonialism.
Quote examples
If you thinking this is a "kumbaya" moment, think again.
That's pretty much the epitome of "Kumbaya PM".
So the question of "where are the women" isn't only about the women, but about our seeming inability to fix society just by joining hands, singing kumbaya and declaring change.
> If you thinking this is a "kumbaya" moment, think again.
Proper noun examples
I support a 'Kumbaya' group of data scientists who have never heard of docker.
And we can all link hands and sing Kumbaya.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use kumbaya in a sentence?
This relates to the term I used in another HN thread - the Kumbaya Approach to project management.
What does kumbaya mean?
Used to evoke spiritual unity and interpersonal harmony, with varying degrees of sincerity or sarcasm, as referring to the folk song.
What part of speech is kumbaya?
kumbaya is commonly used as noun.