dessert
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- noun
- /dɪˈzɜrt/
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postre
- After a delicious meal, we enjoyed a rich chocolate cake for dessert.
- serve dessert
- frozen dessert
- fruit for dessert
There ain't much frosting on the dessert right now, is there?
- There ain't much frosting on the dessert right now, is there?
- The best time to have them is for dessert after lunch or after dinner.
- Do not put honey on pizza unless it's the little dessert pizza that's sick.
- The world can simply not sustain that many dessert taste testers.
- And now for dessert for having a dessert dumpling.
Examples
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We stopped off for a little dessert and a coffee.
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Hey, you want some dessert?
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And then for dessert, this is the main event.
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And then right over here is their dessert case.
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It's a brilliant dessert as well, a real, real treat.
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The best time to have them is for dessert after lunch or after dinner.
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I was thinking of asking her to marry me after dessert.
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It's technically more of a dessert than a cake, I suppose.
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This is a Canadian dessert, chocolate mousse.
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For dessert, strawberries, pine nuts and honey.
Synonyms
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A sweet dish served at the end of a meal
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A small sugary food eaten after a meal
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Ice cream with sweet sauce, for example fruit or nuts
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A dessert with a thin hard layer of caramelized sugar on top
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A sweet cold food made by freezing milk or fruit
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A sweet Italian dish you eat at the end of a meal
A sweet dish served at the end of a meal, like cake or ice cream
A dessert that is not heavy and usually has fewer calories
Compounds
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A spoon larger than a teaspoon but smaller than a tablespoon that you use for eating desserts
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Etymology
The word dessert comes from the French verb desservir, which means 'to clear the table' and is made from the parts de- and servir ('to serve'), the same root as English serve. So dessert is the food you are given after the table is cleared, the sweet course at the end of a meal.