Meaning

5 senses
  1. A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.

    (countable, uncountable, usually)A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.

    A roast dinner isn't complete without gravy.

  2. (Southern US, countable, uncountable, usually)A pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce.

    There are few foods more Southern than biscuits and gravy.

  3. (uncountable, usually)Sauce used for pasta.

    Soße, Bratensoße

    подли́вкаpodlívka, со́усsóus

    підли́вкаpidlývka, со́усsóus

  4. (India, Singapore, uncountable, usually)Curry sauce.

  5. (informal, uncountable, usually)Unearned gain; extra benefit.

    The first thousand tickets and the concessions cover the venue and the band. The rest is gravy.

More definitions
  • the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added
  • a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats
  • a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)

Examples

28 sentences
  1. Tom asked Mary to pass him the gravy.

    Том попросив Мері подати йому соус.

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  2. Is there enough gravy?

    Чи достатньо соусу?

    ruСоуса достаточно?

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  3. Would you like some more gravy?

    deMöchtest du noch etwas mehr Sauce?

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  4. Tom likes mashed potatoes with gravy.

    ruТом любит картофельное пюре с подливой.

    deTom isst gerne Kartoffelbrei mit Bratensoße.

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  5. Mashed potatoes are often eaten with gravy.

    ruКартофельное пюре часто подается с подливой.

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Translations

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Origin

From Middle English gravey, greavie, gravy; probably from greaves, graves (“the sediment o

From Middle English gravey, greavie, gravy; probably from greaves, graves (“the sediment of melted tallow”), or from Old French grave, a claimed misspelling of grané (“stew, spice”), from grain (“spice”).

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Forms

plural: gravies
Singulargravy
Pluralgravies

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

16 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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