onions
UN-yuhnz/ˈʌn.jənz/
- 1Plural of onion.
The farmers harvested sacks of onions before the first frost.
Caramelized onions add a deep, sweet flavor to the dish.
Note
The plural is regular: onion simply takes -s. Whole bulbs are counted (sacks of onions, three onions), while chopped or cooked onion in a recipe often stays singular as a mass noun (a pound of onion). The plural also covers the word's slang uses. Onions can be ounces, and in obsolete slang they were balls or watch-seals.
onions is a form of onion
onion, noun: The rounded, layered bulb of the plant Allium cepa, related to garlic, eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable and used to flavor food; also the plant itself. Full entry
- Forms
- oniononions plural
- Spelling
- onion → onions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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