Meaning

6 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.

    Gewürz, Würze

    припра́ваpripráva, спе́цияspécija

    припра́ваprypráva

  2. (broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable)Anything added to increase enjoyment.

  3. (countable, uncountable)A coat of polymerized oil inside a cooking vessel which renders the surface non-stick.

  4. (countable, uncountable)In diamond-cutting, the charging of the laps or wheels with diamond dust and oil.

  5. (countable, uncountable)The air drying of wood.

    lagern zum Trocknen, Ablagern

  6. (archaic, countable, uncountable)An alcoholic intoxication.

    Some of our gentlemen officers, happening to stop at a tavern, or rather a sort of grogshop, took such a seasoning that two or three of them became “quite frisky.”

More definitions
  • the act of adding a seasoning to food
  • something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Tom's partner thought that they should also sell gourmet popcorn seasonings.

    deToms Partner meinte, dass auch Gourmetwürzungen für Popcorn in den Verkauf genommen werden sollten. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. I was putting the same seasonings on everything, so I got tired of it.

  3. I make a point of not using any store-bought seasonings and always making my own.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
cooking ingredient:
Русский
By meaning 1
cooking ingredient:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
cooking ingredient:
air drying of wood:

Forms

plural: seasonings
Singularseasoning
Pluralseasonings

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
intoxication:drunkenness
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedseason

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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