doughnut
noun
a small cake of sweetened or, sometimes, unsweetened dough fried in deep fat, typically shaped like a ring or, when prepared with a filling, a ball.
doughnuts
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pluralof doughnut.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Saunders also noted that a Dunkin’ promo this year offering a free tote bag with the purchase of a half-dozen doughnuts went over well with customers.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Apparently, this was evidenced by the fact that people in the office once got doughnuts during a meeting, while the remote employees didn’t get anything special.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
For dessert, Proust's beloved madeleines and mirabelles jostled for attention with distinctly American-accented glazed doughnuts.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
More recently, a bunch of “unruly teenagers,” as Syd describes them, have been doing doughnuts in the street near her parents’ house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
St. Louis air smelled of tar and doughnuts, old boards washed up out of the muddy river, red bricks, and licorice.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
