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sids

sids noun: oat husks, or bran with some kernel, used to make sowens.

Noun (1)

sids pl (plural only)

  1. (Scotland, plural, plural-only) Oat husks, or bran with some kernel, used to make sowens.

Noun (2) capitalized: SIDS

SIDS (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of sudden infant death syndrome.
    • The evidence clearly showed that ETS increased the risk of SIDS, but the panel couldn’t decide whether that risk was caused by prenatal smoking, postnatal ETS, or both.2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, chapter 5, in Merchants of Doubt
    • The AAP, therefore, is expanding its recommendations from focusing only on SIDS to focusing on a safe sleep environment that can reduce the risk of all sleep-related infant deaths, including SIDS.2011 November, “SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: Expansion of Recommendations for a Safe Infant Sleeping Environment”, in American Academy of Pediatrics, volume 128, number 5, archived...

Proper noun capitalized: SIDS

SIDS

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Small Island Developing States.

Noun (3) capitalized: SIDs

SIDs

  1. (plural) plural of SID

Questions about sids

What does sids mean?
Sids means oat husks, or bran with some kernel, used to make sowens.
What part of speech is sids?
Sids can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near sids in the dictionary

  1. sidorenkite
  2. Sidors
  3. Sidoti
  4. Sidotis
  5. sidpietersite
  6. sids
  7. sidth
  8. sidths
  9. Siduri
  10. Sidwell
  11. Sidwells

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sids (page history and authors); SIDS (page history and authors); SIDs (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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