marmalade
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2.8
- noun
- /ˈmɑrməˌleɪd/
:
mermelada
- Bacon and eggs, sausages and tomatoes, racks of fresh toast, marmalade and honey, all washed down with large cups of very strong tea.
- orange marmalade
- marmalade on toast
- spread marmalade
And there's always toast, you know, toast and marmalade and.
- And there's always toast, you know, toast and marmalade and.
- And then I've got you some quintessentially British marmalade from a shop called Fornham Mason.
- Making meals from discreet objects, a sweet potato, a jar of marmalade, a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc.
- Well, he likes sandwiches with marmalades.
Examples
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Dale took the last piece of toast, swabbed it in the marmalade jar, and chewed slowly.
Fiction book (2002) -
With oranges this wonderful, you have to make marmalade.
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Is that marmalade over there?
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I do have a special marmalade I prefer.
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Can you pass the marmalade?
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Does she have to have marmalade?
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Get a jar of that new marmalade, will you?
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Will you pass the marmalade to Mr. Casey?
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For breakfast, we got white bread, peanut butter, and marmalade with coffee, but no milk.
Academic text (2008) -
For breakfast, we got white bread, peanut butter, and marmalade with coffee, but no milk.
Synonyms
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1.0
A sweet clear fruit spread made from fruit juice and sugar
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1.0
A sweet spread made by boiling crushed fruit with sugar
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2.5
A sweet spread made from oranges with small pieces of peel for bread or toast
Compounds
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2.5
A sweet spread made from oranges with small pieces of peel for bread or toast
A tree from the West Indies and northern South America that makes orange-sized juicy fruit
An evergreen South American shrub with bright orange, trumpet-shaped flowers grown for decoration
- Specialized
A tropical American tree with sweet egg-shaped fruit and wood like mahogany
A small orange tree that makes sour fruit used for marmalade and to start new orange trees
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Etymology
Marmalade comes from the Portuguese marmelada, from marmelo meaning 'quince'. A helpful way to remember it is that it was first a 'quince' jam and later made from bitter oranges, so today marmalade means the citrus spread we put on toast.