| sou | (noun) a former French coin of low denomination; often used of any small amount of money | - |
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| souari | (noun) large South American evergreen tree having trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil | Synonyms: Caryocar nuciferum, souari nut, souari tree |
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| soubrette | (noun) a minor female role as a pert flirtatious lady's maid in a comedy | - |
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| (noun) a pert or flirtatious young girl | - |
| soubriquet | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname, sobriquet |
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| souchong | (noun) a fine quality of black tea native to China | Synonyms: soochong |
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| souffle | (noun) light fluffy dish of egg yolks and stiffly beaten egg whites mixed with e.g. cheese or fish or fruit | - |
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| souk | (noun) an open-air market in an Arabian city | - |
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| soul | (noun) a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential | Synonyms: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone |
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| (noun) the human embodiment of something | - |
| (noun) a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s | - |
| (noun) deep feeling or emotion | Synonyms: soulfulness |
| (noun) the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life | Synonyms: psyche |
| soulfulness | (noun) deep feeling or emotion | Synonyms: soul |
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| sound | (noun) the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause | - |
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| (noun) the subjective sensation of hearing something | Synonyms: auditory sensation |
| (noun) the audible part of a transmitted signal | Synonyms: audio |
| (noun) (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language | Synonyms: phone, speech sound |
| (noun) the sudden occurrence of an audible event | - |
| (noun) a large ocean inlet or deep bay | - |
| (noun) a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water | Synonyms: strait |
| (noun) mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium | - |
| soundboard | (noun) (music) resonator consisting of a thin board whose vibrations reinforce the sound of the instrument | Synonyms: sounding board |
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| soundbox | (noun) a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin) | Synonyms: body |
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| sounder | (noun) a device for making soundings | - |
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| sounding | (noun) the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line) | - |
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| (noun) a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line | - |
| soundlessness | (noun) the property of making no sound | Synonyms: quietness |
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| soundman | (noun) a technician in charge of amplifying sound or producing sound effects (as for a TV or radio broadcast) | - |
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| soundness | (noun) the muscle tone of healthy tissue | Synonyms: firmness |
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| (noun) the quality of being prudent and sensible | Synonyms: wisdom, wiseness |
| (noun) a state or condition free from damage or decay | - |
| soundtrack | (noun) sound recording on a narrow strip of a motion picture film | - |
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| soup | (noun) liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food | - |
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| (noun) an unfortunate situation | - |
| (noun) any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup | - |
| soupcon | (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, pinch, speck, tinge, touch |
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| soupfin | (noun) Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A) | Synonyms: Galeorhinus zyopterus, soup-fin, soupfin shark |
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| soupiness | (noun) the property of having the thickness of heavy cream | Synonyms: creaminess |
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| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness |
| soupspoon | (noun) a spoon with a rounded bowl for eating soup | Synonyms: soup spoon |
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| sour | (noun) the property of being acidic | Synonyms: acidity, sourness |
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| (noun) the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: sourness, tartness |
| (noun) a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar | - |
| sourball | (noun) round piece of tart hard candy | - |
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| source | (noun) a facility where something is available | - |
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| (noun) anything that provides inspiration for later work | Synonyms: germ, seed |
| (noun) a document (or organization) from which information is obtained | - |
| (noun) a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to | Synonyms: reference |
| (noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: beginning, origin, root, rootage |
| (noun) anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies | Synonyms: reservoir |
| (noun) someone who originates or causes or initiates something | Synonyms: author, generator |
| (noun) a person who supplies information | Synonyms: informant |
| (noun) (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system | - |
| sourdine | (noun) an organ stop resulting in a soft muted sound | - |
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| (noun) a mute for a violin | Synonyms: sordino |
| sourdough | (noun) a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska) | - |
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| (noun) a leaven of dough in which fermentation is active; used by pioneers for making bread | - |
| souring | (noun) the process of becoming sour | - |
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| sourness | (noun) the property of being acidic | Synonyms: acidity, sour |
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| (noun) a sullen moody resentful disposition | Synonyms: moroseness, sulkiness, sullenness |
| (noun) the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: sour, tartness |
| sourpuss | (noun) someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression | Synonyms: gloomy Gus, picklepuss, pouter |
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| soursop | (noun) large spiny tropical fruit with tart pulp related to custard apples | Synonyms: guanabana |
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| (noun) small tropical American tree bearing large succulent slightly acid fruit | Synonyms: Annona muricata, prickly custard apple, soursop tree |
| sourwood | (noun) deciduous shrubby tree of eastern North America having deeply fissured bark and sprays of small fragrant white flowers and sour-tasting leaves | Synonyms: Oxydendrum arboreum, sorrel tree, titi |
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| sousaphone | (noun) the lowest brass wind instrument | Synonyms: bass horn, tuba |
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| souse | (noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: drenching, soaking, sousing |
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| (noun) pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled | - |
| (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker |
| sousing | (noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: drenching, soaking, souse |
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| souslik | (noun) rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel | Synonyms: Citellus citellus, suslik |
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| soutache | (noun) a narrow braid used as a decorative trimming | - |
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| soutane | (noun) a long cassock with buttons down the front; worn by Roman Catholic priests | - |
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| south | (noun) a location in the southern part of a country, region, or city | - |
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| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees | Synonyms: due south, S, southward |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southward cardinal compass point | - |
| southeast | (noun) a location in the southeastern part of a country, region, or city | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees | Synonyms: SE, sou'-east, southeastward |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southeastward compass point | - |
| southeaster | (noun) a strong wind from the southeast | Synonyms: sou'easter |
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| southeastward | (noun) the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees | Synonyms: SE, sou'-east, southeast |
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| souther | (noun) a wind from the south | Synonyms: south wind, southerly |
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| southerly | (noun) a wind from the south | Synonyms: south wind, souther |
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| southernism | (noun) an attitude characteristic of Southerners (especially in the US) | - |
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| (noun) a locution or pronunciation peculiar to the southern United States | - |
| southernness | (noun) the property of being to the south | - |
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| southernwood | (noun) shrubby European wormwood naturalized in North America; sometimes used in brewing beer | Synonyms: Artemisia abrotanum |
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| southland | (noun) any region lying in or toward the south | - |
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| southpaw | (noun) a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right | Synonyms: left-hander, lefty |
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| (noun) a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand | Synonyms: left-handed pitcher, left-hander, left hander, lefthander, lefty |
| southward | (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees | Synonyms: due south, S, south |
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| southwest | (noun) a location in the southwestern part of a country, region, or city | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees | Synonyms: sou'-west, southwestward, SW |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southwestward compass point | - |
| southwester | (noun) a strong wind from the southwest | Synonyms: sou'wester |
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| southwestward | (noun) the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees | Synonyms: sou'-west, southwest, SW |
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| souvenir | (noun) something of sentimental value | Synonyms: keepsake, relic, token |
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| (noun) a reminder of past events | Synonyms: memento |
| souvlaki | (noun) made of lamb | Synonyms: souvlakia |
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| souvlakia | (noun) made of lamb | Synonyms: souvlaki |
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