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bourbons

bourbons is the plural of bourbon.

Meaning of bourbon

Noun

bourbon (countable and uncountable, plural bourbons)

  1. A whiskey distilled in the United States from a mixture of grains in which at least 51% is corn, aged in charred, new oak barrels.
  2. A serving of bourbon whiskey.
    • It concerns the gnomelike quality of the average American at a party. I have been to many parties where staid American business men have been transformed by a few ryes or bourbons into unpredictable gremlins out for adventure.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 17
  3. A Bourbon biscuit.

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Noun capitalized: Bourbons

Bourbons

  1. (plural) plural of Bourbon

Questions about bourbons

What is bourbons the plural of?
Bourbons is the plural of bourbon.
What part of speech is bourbons?
Bourbons is a noun.

Words near bourbons in the dictionary

  1. Bourbonize
  2. Bourbonized
  3. Bourbonizes
  4. Bourbonizing
  5. Bourbonnais
  6. bourbons
  7. Bourchier
  8. Bourchiers
  9. bourd
  10. Bourdain
  11. Bourdeau

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