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gombo

gombo is the alternative form of gumbo.

Meaning of gumbo

Noun

gumbo (countable and uncountable, plural gumbos)

  1. (countable) Synonym of okra: the plant or its edible capsules.
    Synonyms:
    okra
  2. (countable) A soup or stew popular in Louisiana, consisting of a strong stock, meat or shellfish, a thickener (often okra), and the "Holy Trinity" of celery, bell peppers, and onions.
  3. (uncountable) A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy.
    • The team stuck fast in the black muck, and every effort to extricate them served only to imbed them more hopelessly in the sticky gumbo.1909, Ralph Connor, chapter 11, in The Foreigner

Forms of gombo

pluralgombos

Questions about gombo

What is gombo the alternative form of?
Gombo is the alternative form of gumbo.

Words near gombo in the dictionary

  1. gombey
  2. gombeys
  3. Gombi
  4. gomble
  5. gombles
  6. gombo
  7. gombolola
  8. gombololas
  9. gombos
  10. Gomboses
  11. gombroon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gombo (page history and authors); gumbo (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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