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dessert
sweet food, often served as the last course of a meal: I’ll have my dessert first.
Not to be confused with:
desert – a dry, barren region: Mojave Desert; deserved: received his just desert; abandon: desert a family to pursue selfish desires
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des·sert
(dĭ-zûrt′)n.
1. A usually sweet course or dish, as of fruit, ice cream, or pastry, served at the end of a meal.
2. Chiefly British Fresh fruit, nuts, or sweetmeats served after the sweet course of a dinner.
[French, from Old French desservir, to clear the table : des-, de- + servir, to serve; see serve.]
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dessert
(dɪˈzɜːt)n
1. (Cookery) the sweet, usually last course of a meal
2. (Cookery) chiefly Brit (esp formerly) fruit, dates, nuts, etc, served at the end of a meal
[C17: from French, from desservir to clear a table, from des- dis-1 + servir to serve]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
des•sert
(dɪˈzɜrt)n.
a usu. sweet food, as cake, pudding, ice cream, or fruit, served as the final course of a meal.
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desert
– dessert1. 'desert' as a noun
A desert /'dezət/ is a large area of land where there is very little water or rain, no trees, and very few plants.
They crossed the Sahara Desert.
2. 'desert' as a verb
When people or animals desert /dɪ'zɜːt/ a place, they all leave it.
Poor farmers are deserting their fields and coming here looking for jobs.
If you desert someone, you leave them and no longer help or support them.
All our friends have deserted us.
3. 'dessert'
Dessert /dɪ'zɜːt/ is sweet food served at the end of a meal.
For dessert there was ice cream.
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| Noun | 1. |  dessert - a dish served as the last course of a mealcourse - part of a meal served at one time; "she prepared a three course meal" ambrosia - fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut baked Alaska - cake covered with ice cream and meringue browned quickly in an oven blancmange - sweet almond-flavored milk pudding thickened with gelatin or cornstarch; usually molded charlotte - a mold lined with cake or crumbs and filled with fruit or whipped cream or custard compote, fruit compote - dessert of stewed or baked fruit dumpling - dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry flan - open pastry filled with fruit or custard frozen dessert - any of various desserts prepared by freezing junket - dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet mousse - a rich, frothy, creamy dessert made with whipped egg whites and heavy cream pavlova - a dessert consisting of a meringue base or cup filled with fruit and whipped cream peach melba - ice cream and peaches with a liqueur whip - a dessert made of sugar and stiffly beaten egg whites or cream and usually flavored with fruit pudding - any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed tiramisu - an Italian dessert consisting of layers of sponge cake soaked with coffee and brandy or liqueur layered with mascarpone cheese and topped with grated chocolate sabayon, zabaglione - light foamy custard-like dessert served hot or chilled |
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dessert
noun pudding, sweet (informal), afters (Brit. informal), pud, second course, last course, sweet course We had homemade ice cream for dessert.
Desserts and sweet dishes
Atholl Brose or Athole Brose, baked Alaska, banana split, bavarois or Bavarian cream, Black Forest gateau, blancmange, blintz, bombe, bread and butter pudding, cabinet pudding, cassata, charlotte, charlotte russe, cheesecake, Christmas pudding, cobbler, college pudding, compote, coupe, cranachan, crème brûlée, crème caramel, crêpe, crêpe suzette, crumble, custard, death by chocolate, duff, dumpling, Easter-ledge pudding, Eve's pudding, flummery, fondant, fool, fruit cup, fruit salad or cocktail, gâteau, hasty pudding, ice cream, Île Flottante, jelly or (U.S.) jello, junket, kissel, knickerbocker glory, kulfi, marrons glacés, milk pudding, Mississippi mud pie, mousse, Neapolitan ice cream, nesselrode, panocha (U.S.), parfait, pashka, pavlova or (Austral. & N.Z. informal) pav, peach Melba, plum duff, plum pudding, queen of puddings, rice pudding, roly-poly, sabayon, sago, semolina, shoofly pie (U.S.), shortcake, slump (U.S.), sorbet, soufflé, sponge pudding, spotted dick, spumone or spumoni, steamed pudding, strudel, suet pudding, summer pudding, sundae, syllabub or sillabub, tapioca, tartlet, tiramisu, torte, trifle, tutti-frutti, vacherin, water ice, whip, yogurt, zabaglioneCollins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
Translations
zákusekdesertdezertmoučníksladkost
dessertslik
jälkiruokamakeinen
desertposlasticarepeteslatko
desszert
eftirréttur
デザート甘いものスイーツ
디저트사탕
desertas
desertssaldais ēdiens
poobedekposladek
efterrättgodsak
ขนมของหวาน
kẹomón tráng miệng
dessert
[dɪˈzɜːt]Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
dessert
[dɪˈzɜːrt] n → dessert mfor dessert → comme dessert dessert apple, dessert chocolate, dessert menu, dessert plate, dessert winedessert apple n → pomme f à couteaudessert chocolate n → chocolat m à croquerdessert menu n → carte f des dessertsdessert plate n → assiette f à dessert
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
dessert
dessert
:dessert apple
n → Dessertapfel m
dessert plate
n → Dessertteller m
dessertspoon
n → Dessertlöffel m
dessert wine
n → Dessertwein m
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
dessert
[dɪˈzɜːt] n → dessert m inv, dolce mdessert plate → piatto da dessert
dessert wine → vino da dessert
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
dessert
(diˈzəːt) noun1. the sweet course in a meal; pudding. We had ice-cream for dessert.
2. fruits, sweets etc served at the end of dinner.
to eat a dessert (not desert).
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
dessert
→ حَلْوى, حَلْوَى, حَلْوَى يُخْتَتَمُ بِهَا الطَّعَامُ dezert, sladkost dessert, slik Bonbon, Nachspeise γλυκό, επιδόρπιο caramelo, postre jälkiruoka, makeinen dessert desert, repete, slatko dessert, dolce デザート, 甘いもの 디저트, 사탕 snoepje, toetje dessert, sukkertøy cukierek, deser doce, sobremesa десерт, конфета efterrätt, godsak ขนม, ของหวาน şeker, tatlı kẹo, món tráng miệng 正餐后的甜食, 甜点Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
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dessert
n postre mEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.