dishnoun
uk/dɪʃ/us/dɪʃ/dish noun (CONTAINER)
A2 [ C ] a container, flatter than a bowl and sometimes with a lid, from which food can be served or which can be used for cooking:
an oven-proof dish
See also
satellite dish
the dishes A2 [ plural ]
all the plates, glasses, knives, forks, etc. that have been used during a meal:
Have you done/washed the dishes?
More examples
- There's no butter left in the butter dish.
- When you have rolled out the pastry, place it in a pie dish.
- Shred the lettuce and arrange it around the edge of the dish.
- Are you sure this dish is ovenproof?
- I keep the serving dishes in that cupboard in the corner.
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Dishes, bowls, cups & glasses
- basin
- beaker
- bowl
- chalice
- champagne flute
- coaster
- crockery
- dinner service
- middy
- mortar
- mug
- place mat
- platter
- pudding basin
- stein
- stem
- stoneware
- tableware
- tankard
- tea set
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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Washing the dishes
dish noun (FOOD)
A2 [ C ] food prepared in a particular way as part of a meal:
a chicken/vegetarian dish
More examples
- Here's a dish I prepared earlier.
- It takes a long time to prepare the dish but the results are so good that it's worth the effort.
- It's a simple dish to prepare, consisting mainly of rice and vegetables.
- I had the the most expensive dish on the menu - a choice fillet of fish.
- He concocted the most amazing dish from all sorts of unlikely ingredients.
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Meals & parts of meals
- accompaniment
- afternoon tea
- afters
- amuse-bouche
- antipasto
- dinner
- dinner party
- dinner time
- elevenses
- English breakfast
- packed lunch
- picnic
- plate meal
- ploughman's lunch
- postprandial
- tea party
- teatime
- tiffin
- TV dinner
- working lunch/breakfast
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dish noun (ATTRACTIVE PERSON)
[ S ] old-fashioned a sexually attractive person:
He's gorgeous - what a dish!
dishverb
uk/dɪʃ/us/dɪʃ/dish the dirt
to tell people unpleasant or shocking personal information about someone:
She agreed to dish the dirt on her ex-husband for a large fee.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Revealing secrets & becoming known
- (the) word is/gets out idiom
- bare
- be the talk of the town idiom
- break cover idiom
- cat
- dob sb in
- emerge
- fink
- get around (somewhere)
- give sth away
- King's evidence
- leak
- let the cat out of the bag idiom
- open your heart to someone idiom
- sneak
- spill the beans idiom
- tell on sb
- tongues wagging idiom
- turn
- unmask
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Phrasal verb(s)
dish sth out
dish (sth) up
dish sth up