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soul-food

soul-food is the alternative form of soul food.

Meaning of soul food

Noun

soul food (countable and uncountable, plural soul foods)

  1. Nourishment for the soul; spiritual sustenance.
  2. (US) A style of food originating in the rural southern US, traditionally associated with African Americans.
    • I couldn't wait for eight o'clock to get home to eat out of those soul-food pots of Ella's, then get dressed in my zoot and head for some of my friends' places in town, to lindy-hop and get high, […]1965, Malcolm X, Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published 2015, →ISBN, page 70

Forms of soul-food

pluralsoul-foods

Questions about soul-food

What is soul-food the alternative form of?
Soul-food is the alternative form of soul food.

Words near soul-food in the dictionary

  1. soul-cake
  2. soul-cakes
  3. soul-crushing
  4. soul-crushingly
  5. soul-destroying
  6. soul-food
  7. soul-foods
  8. soul-love
  9. soul-rending
  10. soul-rendingly
  11. soul-search

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