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noms

noms is the plural of nom.

noms is the third-person singular simple present indicative of nom.

Meaning of nom

Interjection

  1. (colloquial) Used to denote eating, or enjoyment of eating.
    • [to a baby] You are so cute, I could just eat you right up! Nom nom nom.

See all 2 meanings of nom

Noun

noms pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only, slang) Food, especially tasty food.
    • Forget overpriced noms2008, Kaiser Kuo, The Insider's Guide to Beijing 2005-2006
    • She's quite the foodie herself, frequently posting some tasty looking noms to her Instagram, as well as some adorable family photos.2019 September 20, Glenn Garner, “Chrissy Teigen and John Legend are joined by 16-month-old son Miles as they have family outing for launch of Impossible Foods Grocery in LA”, in Daily Mail

Proper noun capitalized: NOMS

NOMS

  1. (England, Wales, abbreviation, historical, initialism) Initialism of National Offender Management Service.

Origin of noms

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Onomatopoeic

Phrases with noms

Questions about noms

What does noms mean?
Noms means food, especially tasty food.
What is noms the plural of?
Noms is the plural of nom.
What part of speech is noms?
Noms can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near noms in the dictionary

  1. nomothetically
  2. nomothetics
  3. nomotreme
  4. nomoxic
  5. nompC
  6. noms
  7. noms d'artiste
  8. noms de clavier
  9. noms de course
  10. noms de guerre
  11. noms de plume

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: noms (page history and authors); NOMS (page history and authors); nom (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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