DESSERT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dessert mean? 

• DESSERT (noun)
  The noun DESSERT has 1 sense:

1. a dish served as the last course of a meal

  Familiarity information: DESSERT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DESSERT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dish served as the last course of a meal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

afters; dessert; sweet

Hypernyms ("dessert" is a kind of...):

course (part of a meal served at one time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dessert"):

mousse (a rich, frothy, creamy dessert made with whipped egg whites and heavy cream)

mold; mould (a dish or dessert that is formed in or on a mold)

sabayon; zabaglione (light foamy custard-like dessert served hot or chilled)

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)

sillabub; syllabub (sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor)

pud; pudding ((British) the dessert course of a meal ('pud' is used informally))

pudding (any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed)

whip (a dessert made of sugar and stiffly beaten egg whites or cream and usually flavored with fruit)

peach melba (ice cream and peaches with a liqueur)

pavlova (a dessert consisting of a meringue base or cup filled with fruit and whipped cream)

ambrosia (fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut)

junket (dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet)

frozen dessert (any of various desserts prepared by freezing)

flan (open pastry filled with fruit or custard)

dumpling (dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry)

compote; fruit compote (dessert of stewed or baked fruit)

charlotte (a mold lined with cake or crumbs and filled with fruit or whipped cream or custard)

blancmange (sweet almond-flavored milk pudding thickened with gelatin or cornstarch; usually molded)

baked Alaska (cake covered with ice cream and meringue browned quickly in an oven)

 Context examples 

These preparations happily completed, I bought a little dessert in Covent Garden Market, and gave a rather extensive order at a retail wine-merchant's in that vicinity.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When the dessert and the wine were arranged, and Mrs. Dashwood and Elinor were left by themselves, they remained long together in a similarity of thoughtfulness and silence.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Bilbao-Sainz became intrigued with the idea of freeze-dried fruit powders as ice cream stabilizers when an all-natural dessert maker came looking for scientific facts about them.

(Freeze-Dried Strawberries and Ice Cream Make for a Very Stable Relationship, Agricultural Research Service)

The dessert was not carried out till after nine and at ten footmen were still running to and fro with trays and coffee- cups.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I'll have blanc mange and strawberries for dessert, and coffee too, if you want to be elegant.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She said no more, other subjects took their turn; and the rest of the dinner passed away; the dessert succeeded, the children came in, and were talked to and admired amid the usual rate of conversation; a few clever things said, a few downright silly, but by much the larger proportion neither the one nor the other—nothing worse than everyday remarks, dull repetitions, old news, and heavy jokes.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

As Mr. Rushworth did not come, the injury was increased, and she had not even the relief of shewing her power over him; she could only be sullen to her mother, aunt, and cousin, and throw as great a gloom as possible over their dinner and dessert.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

To be technically classified as ice cream, it must contain between 10 percent and 16 percent milkfat; everything else is called a frozen dairy dessert.

(Freeze-Dried Strawberries and Ice Cream Make for a Very Stable Relationship, Agricultural Research Service)

These, however, were small drawbacks, and easily forgotten when the cloth was cleared, and the dessert put on the table; at which period of the entertainment the handy young man was discovered to be speechless.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Elton was still talking, still engaged in some interesting detail; and Emma experienced some disappointment when she found that he was only giving his fair companion an account of the yesterday's party at his friend Cole's, and that she was come in herself for the Stilton cheese, the north Wiltshire, the butter, the celery, the beet-root, and all the dessert.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)