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'ud

/uːd/

'ud is the alternative form of oud.

Meaning of oud

Noun

oud (countable and uncountable, plural ouds)

  1. A short-necked and fretless plucked stringed instrument of the lute family, of Arab and Turkish origin.
    • Oriental music is chiefly unrhythmical [...]. It is mostly rendered by a solo voice with accompaniment of the Ud, a kind of lyre or mandolin, or Kanun, resembling a guitar.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 25
  2. (perfumery) Agarwood, in particular the noble rot of Aquilaria trees used to make perfumes.
    • The recent fashion for oud (the noble rot of Aquilaria trees) took flight when YSL released M7, where the oud accord was center stage. It came with an advertising campaign featuring a hairy naked guy, a sight rated “beautiful” by my co-author. Real oud is complex material, with honey, tobacco...2010, Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez, “M7”, in Perfumes: The A–Z Guide, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 233

Verb

IPA/əd/

'ud

  1. (dialectal, nonstandard) Would.
    • Well, that ‘ud be imposing, too, on Tellson’s. For you cannot sarse the goose and not the gander.1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
    • […] and figuring on where the engraved papers were going to come from that 'ud enable me to yank one of the bennies out of the eaves. Nobody ever saw me without an overcoat, and the right kind of an overcoat, […]1902, Clarence Louis Cullen, More Ex-Tank Tales, page 32

Forms of 'ud

plural'uds

Questions about 'ud

What does 'ud mean?
'ud means would.
What is 'ud the alternative form of?
'ud is the alternative form of oud.
What part of speech is 'ud?
'ud is a verb.
How do you pronounce 'ud?
'ud is pronounced /uːd/.

Words near 'ud in the dictionary

  1. 'twon't
  2. 'twou'd
  3. 'twou'dn't
  4. 'twould
  5. 'twouldn't
  6. 'ud
  7. 'uds
  8. 'ull
  9. 'ullo
  10. 'um
  11. 'umble

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 'ud (page history and authors); oud (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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