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ouds

/aʊdz/

ouds is the plural 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

Proper noun capitalized: OUDS

OUDS

  1. (abbreviation, acronym, Oxford University slang) Acronym of Oxford University Dramatic Society.

Questions about ouds

What is ouds the plural of?
Ouds is the plural of oud.
What part of speech is ouds?
Ouds is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce ouds?
Ouds is pronounced /aʊdz/.

Words near ouds in the dictionary

  1. Oudin resonators
  2. oudist
  3. oudists
  4. oudler
  5. oudlers
  6. ouds
  7. Oudtshoorn
  8. oued
  9. Oued Keberit
  10. Oued Zenati
  11. oueds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ouds (page history and authors); OUDS (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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