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  • soma
    soma
    noun
    the body of an organism as contrasted with its germ cells.
  • Soma
    Soma
    a brand of carisoprodol.
  • -soma
    -soma
    a variant of -some, used especially in the formation of names of zoological genera.
Synonyms

soma

1 American  
[soh-muh] / ˈsoʊ mə /

noun

Biology.

plural

somata, somas

  1. the body of an organism as contrasted with its germ cells.

soma 2 American  
[soh-muh] / ˈsoʊ mə /

noun

  1. haoma.

Soma 3 American  
[soh-muh] / ˈsoʊ mə /
Pharmacology, Trademark.

  1. a brand of carisoprodol.

-soma 4 American  

  1. a variant of -some, used especially in the formation of names of zoological genera.

    Schistosoma.
soma 1 British  
/ ˈsəʊmə /

noun

  1. the body of an organism, esp an animal, as distinct from the germ cells

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soma 2 British  
/ ˈsəʊmə /

noun

  1. an intoxicating plant juice drink used in Vedic rituals

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Etymology

Origin of soma1

1830–40; < New Latin < Greek sôma body

Origin of soma2

Borrowed into English from Sanskrit around 1820–30

Origin of -soma4

< New Latin < Greek sôma

Example Sentences

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“What’s really disturbing is that we’ve noticed our marginalized communities are getting further marginalized in this process,” said Soma Snakeoil, co-founder and executive director of the Sidewalk Project.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2025

Soma Sara, founder of Everyone's Invited, an anti-rape charity, is appointed a MBE.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2024

Jason’s pointing to a letterboard fits broadly with the Rapid Prompting Method invented by Soma Mukhopadhyay, who has worked directly with Jason in the past.

From Salon • Aug. 28, 2024

It was only the second spell-off in the history of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, and Bruhat Soma rattled off a head-spinning 29 correctly spelled words in 90 seconds, including heautophany, nachschläge and puszta.

From New York Times • May 30, 2024

This project was conceived one hot weekend in the Berkshires, where Soma was visiting an old friend, a University of Pennsylvania sociologist named Frank Furstenberg.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

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