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Plural of sourdough

regular plural

The plural of sourdough is sourdoughs.

Forms of sourdough

Singularsourdough /ˈsaʊɚˌdoʊ/
Pluralsourdoughs
Countablecountable and uncountable

Sourdoughs in a sentence

  • The troops went for those fresh tomatoes like sourdoughs going for gold in the Klondike.1944, Ernie Pyle, Brave Men, University of Nebraska Press (2001), page 80

Meaning of sourdough

  1. noun A type of bread dough leavened with yeast and lactobacilli that produce acids giving a sour taste.
  2. noun An old-timer, especially in Alaska.
  3. noun A permanent resident of the territory. Someone who has lived in the Yukon during all four seasons.

Full definition of sourdough

Questions about the plural of sourdough

What is the plural of sourdough?
The plural of sourdough is sourdoughs.
Is sourdough countable?
Sourdough is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sourdough (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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