Meaning

2 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)A type of fish soup or stew from Provence, France.

    Bouillabaisse

    буйабе́сbujabés

    highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs

  2. (broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable)A chaotic, disorganized mixture; a confused hodgepodge.

Translations

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type of fish stew or soup from Provence:
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By meaning 1
type of fish stew or soup from Provence:

Origin

Borrowed from French bouillabaisse, from Occitan bolhabaissa, bouiabaisso, possibly a comp

Borrowed from French bouillabaisse, from Occitan bolhabaissa, bouiabaisso, possibly a compound of bolhir (“to boil”) + abaissar (“to lower (the temperature)”).

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Forms

plural: bouillabaisses
Singularbouillabaisse
Pluralbouillabaisses

regular

Synonyms

59 synonyms
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Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

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