Usually means: Taste sensation of acidic compounds.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. sour: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sour: Merriam-Webster
  3. sour: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sour: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sour: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sour: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sour, sour: Wordnik
  8. sour: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sour: Wiktionary
  10. sour: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sour: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sour: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sour: Dictionary.com
  14. sour: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sour: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sour (Cannabis), Sour (album), Sour (cannabis), Sour (cocktail), Sour (disambiguation), Sour: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sour: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sour: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sour: Rhymezone
  20. sour: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sour: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. sour: FreeDictionary.org
  23. sour: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sour: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. sour: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Beer Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Epicurus.com Spirits Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sour: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sour: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sour: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. sour: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SOUR: Acronym Finder
  2. SPIRITS Terminology (No longer online)
  3. sour: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sour, sour, sour, sour: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sour: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sour: Glossary of Cheese Terms
  2. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See soured as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Tasting of acidity.
adjective:  Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
adjective:  Tasting or smelling rancid.
adjective:  (of a person's character) Hostile or unfriendly.
adjective:  Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil)
adjective:  Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum)
adjective:  Unfortunate or unfavorable.
adjective:  (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
noun:  The sensation of a sour taste.
noun:  A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
noun:  (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
noun:  A sweet/candy having a sharply sour taste.
noun:  A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
noun:  The acidic solution used in souring fabric.
verb:  (transitive) To make sour.
verb:  (intransitive) To become sour.
verb:  (transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
verb:  (intransitive) To become disenchanted.
verb:  (transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
verb:  To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
verb:  (transitive) To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.

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