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sobs

US/sɑbz/

sobs is the plural of sob.

sobs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sob.

Meaning of sob

Noun

sob (plural sobs)

  1. A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.
  2. (onomatopoeic) The sound of sob.
    • “My husband, alas! whom I now (sob, sob) mourn,
    • A short time since (sob) to this grave (sob) was borne;
    • And (sob) he lies buried in this (sob, sob) grave.”1874, George Carter Stent, The Jade Chaplet in Twenty-four Beads, page 9

See all 5 meanings of sob

Noun capitalized: SOBs

SOBs

  1. (plural) plural of SOB

Questions about sobs

What is sobs the plural of?
Sobs is the plural of sob.
What part of speech is sobs?
Sobs is a noun.
How do you pronounce sobs?
Sobs is pronounced /sɑbz/ (US).

Words near sobs in the dictionary

  1. sobriety
  2. sobrinicide
  3. sobriquet
  4. sobriquetical
  5. sobriquets
  6. sobs
  7. sobuzoxane
  8. soc
  9. soc and sac
  10. soc sci
  11. Soc'y

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sobs (page history and authors); SOBs (page history and authors); sob (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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