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somyeon

somyeon noun: a kind of Korean noodle made with wheat flour.

Noun

somyeon

  1. A kind of Korean noodle made with wheat flour.
    • Usually made with cold buckwheat noodles, naengmyeon, or thin wheat flour noodles, somyeon, it’s also good with Vietnamese rice noodles (or so I say, but I’m a heathen).2016 July 1, David Tanis, “Spicy Cold Noodles Offer an Antidote to Summer Heat”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    somen

Synonyms of somyeon

Forms of somyeon

alternative formsōmen

Origin of somyeon

Borrowed from Korean 소면 (somyeon).

Questions about somyeon

What does somyeon mean?
Somyeon means a kind of Korean noodle made with wheat flour.
What part of speech is somyeon?
Somyeon is a noun.

Words near somyeon in the dictionary

  1. somtimes
  2. somtum
  3. somucha
  4. somule
  5. somules
  6. somyeon
  7. son
  8. son cubano
  9. Son en Breugel
  10. son et lumière
  11. son jarocho

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