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worts

UK/wɜːts/US/wɝts/

worts noun: a soup or stew made with worts (“vegetables”) and other ingredients such as meat. Also the plural of wort.

Noun

worts pl (plural only)

  1. (obsolete, plural, plural-only) A soup or stew made with worts (“vegetables”) and other ingredients such as meat.

Also used as

worts is also the plural of wort.

Origin of worts

From wort + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and regular plural forms of nouns).

Phrases with worts

Questions about worts

What does worts mean?
Worts means a soup or stew made with worts (“vegetables”) and other ingredients such as meat.
What part of speech is worts?
Worts is a noun.
How do you pronounce worts?
Worts is pronounced /wɜːts/ (UK).

Words near worts in the dictionary

  1. Wortman
  2. Wortmann
  3. wortmannin
  4. Wortmanns
  5. Wortmans
  6. worts
  7. Wortwell
  8. worty
  9. wortyard
  10. wortyards
  11. wos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: worts (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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