seasoning
Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other…Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.
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» Tom's partner thought that they should also sell gourmet popcorn seasonings.
Toms Partner meinte, dass auch Gourmetwürzungen für Popcorn in den Verkauf genommen werden sollten. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
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6 senses(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
(broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable)Anything added to increase enjoyment.
(countable, uncountable)A coat of polymerized oil inside a cooking vessel which renders the surface non-stick.
(countable, uncountable)In diamond-cutting, the charging of the laps or wheels with diamond dust and oil.
(countable, uncountable)The air drying of wood.
lagern zum Trocknen, Ablagern
(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.”
- the act of adding a seasoning to food
- something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts
Examples
3 sentencesTom'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
I was putting the same seasonings on everything, so I got tired of it.
I make a point of not using any store-bought seasonings and always making my own.
Translations
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Forms
plural: seasonings| Singular | seasoning |
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Synonyms
7 synonyms- something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts:flavorerflavourerflavoringflavouringseasoner
Word family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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