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foodstuffs

foodstuffs is the plural of foodstuff.

Meaning of foodstuff

Noun

foodstuff (countable and uncountable, plural foodstuffs)

  1. A material that may be used as food or as an ingredient of food.
    • The consumption of meat and wine demonstrates the heroes' close relationship to the gods, since these, unlike other foodstuffs, are always offered to the gods: a splash of wine from any drinking occasion is always poured for the gods (as a libation), and animals that are killed are always...2017, Emily Wilson, “Introduction”, in The Odyssey, →ISBN, Gods, page 36

Questions about foodstuffs

What is foodstuffs the plural of?
Foodstuffs is the plural of foodstuff.

Words near foodstuffs in the dictionary

  1. foodstall
  2. foodstalls
  3. foodstore
  4. foodstores
  5. foodstuff
  6. foodstuffs
  7. foodstyle
  8. foodstyles
  9. foodstyling
  10. foodstylist
  11. foodstylists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foodstuffs (page history and authors); foodstuff (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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