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soul foods

soul foods is the plural 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

Questions about soul foods

What is soul foods the plural of?
Soul foods is the plural of soul food.

Words near soul foods in the dictionary

  1. soul brother
  2. soul brothers
  3. soul cake
  4. soul cakes
  5. soul food
  6. soul foods
  7. soul fragment
  8. soul fragments
  9. soul house
  10. soul kiss
  11. soul kissed

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