dish

CEFRA1

/dɪʃ/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A flat container used for serving or eating food.

  2. 02

    noun

    Food prepared and served as part of a meal.

Examples

  • All you have to do is wash the dish.

  • Nothing is so tasty as the dish you make.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A specific type of prepared food.

  2. The contents of such a vessel.

  3. A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.

More examples

In context

  • this dish is filling and easily made

  • a dish of stew

  • a vegetable dish

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English dissh, disch, from Old English disċ (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”) (whence also Proto-Slavic *dъska, whence Bulgarian дъска́ (dǎská), Polish deska, Russian доска́ (doská)), Russian чан (čan)) from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, disk, and diskos. Cognates Cognate with Scots disch (“dish; plate”), Dutch dis (“table”), German Low German Disk, Disch (“table”), German Tisch (“table”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish disk (“dish; counter”), Icelandic diskur (“dish; plate”), Finnish tiski (“desk, counter; dish”). Compare the identical meaning expansion (vessel for food, then also content of such...