sauce

CEFRA1

/sɔːs/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A liquid or thick food served with other food for flavor.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Alcohol, booze.

Examples

  • The tomatoes give extra flavour to the sauce.

  • What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /soːs/
  • /sos/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in

  2. A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.

  3. Anabolic steroids.

More examples

In context

  • Hunger is the best sauce.

  • Maybe you should lay off the sauce.

  • [meat] pie and [tomato] sauce

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

PIE word *sḗh₂l From Middle English sauce, from Old French sause, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), past participle of saliō (“to salt”), from sal. Doublet of salsa. For the meaning development compare Ancient Greek ἥδυσμα (hḗdusma) ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (whence also English sweet).