MARMALADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does marmalade mean? 

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

1. a preserve made of the pulp and rind of citrus fruits

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARMALADE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A preserve made of the pulp and rind of citrus fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

conserve; conserves; preserve; preserves (fruit preserved by cooking with sugar)

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

orange marmalade (marmalade made from oranges)

 Context examples 

Then he gathered up the marmalade and underclothes and put them on the table.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She still screamed and sobbed lustily, kicked her two brothers for offering to touch her, and all their united soothings were ineffectual till Lady Middleton luckily remembering that in a scene of similar distress last week, some apricot marmalade had been successfully applied for a bruised temple, the same remedy was eagerly proposed for this unfortunate scratch, and a slight intermission of screams in the young lady on hearing it, gave them reason to hope that it would not be rejected.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

But he rolled into my marmalade and underclothes and against the trap-door.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I discovered that we stood in need of condensed milk and marmalade, and announced that I was going aboard.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I watched him build the fire and set about cooking food for himself; then I stole into the cabin for my marmalade and underclothes, slipped back past the galley, and climbed down to the beach to deliver my barefoot report.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And as she had followed the trend of my silence, she now followed the trend of my speech, and she knew that I was going aboard, not because of condensed milk and marmalade, but because of her and of her anxiety, which she knew she had failed to hide.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

To my delight she never once looked toward the beach, and I maintained the banter with such success all unconsciously she sipped coffee from the china cup, ate fried evaporated potatoes, and spread marmalade on her biscuit.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)