dill

CEFRB1

/dɪl/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A plant with small leaves used to flavor food.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A cucumber pickled with dill flavoring.

Examples

  • Borscht is often garnished with dill and sour cream.

  • Tom didn't eat dill pickles.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
3

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. To cook or flavor with dill.

  2. Anethum graveolens (the type species of the genus Anethum), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To still; to assuage; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.

More examples

In context

  • My mother would pickle them and dill them, and we still had an abundance of fresh vegetables left.

  • The life of one plant would be affected by another. Rue was definitely hostile to basil, rosemary to hyssop, but coriander, dill and chervil lived on the friendliest of terms[.]

  • The innocent was punished. The gear is payed and the thieves dilled down.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English dile, from Old English dile (“dill, anise”); from Proto-Germanic *deliz, of uncertain, probably non-Indo-European origin, possibly a west European substrate. Cognate with Old Saxon dilli, Dutch dille, Swedish dill, German Dill.