dessert
NounOpen English WordNet
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Translations
Noun sweet course at the end of a meal
- Spanish
- postre
- French
- dessert
- German
- Dessert
- Italian
- dolce
- Portuguese
- sobremesa
- Turkish
- tatlı
- Russian
- десе́рт desért
- Arabic
- حَلْوَى ḥalwā
- Chinese
- 甜点 tiándiǎn
- Japanese
- デザート dezāto
32 more languages
- Dutch
- dessert
- Polish
- deser
- Swedish
- efterrätt
- Greek
- επιδόρπιο epidórpio
- Korean
- 디저트 dijeoteu
- Indonesian
- pencuci mulut
- Vietnamese
- món tráng miệng
- Hungarian
- desszert
- Portuguese (PT)
- sobremesa
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 甜點 tiándiǎn
- Albanian
- ëmbëlsirë
- Catalan
- postres
- Czech
- zákusek
- Danish
- dessert
- Esperanto
- deserto
- Estonian
- magustoit
- Finnish
- jälkiruoka
- Georgian
- დესერტი deserṭi
- Hebrew
- קינוח kinúakh
- Icelandic
- eftirréttur
- Kurdish
- şîranî
- Latvian
- deserts
- Lithuanian
- desertas
- Norwegian
- dessert
- Romanian
- desert
- Scottish Gaelic
- mìlsean
- Serbo-Croatian
- desert
- Slovak
- dezert
- Slovenian
- sladica
- Swahili
- kitindamlo
- Welsh
- pwdin
- Yiddish
- דעסערט desert
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F., fr. desservir to remove from table, to clear the table; pref. des- (L. dis-) + servir to serve, to serve at table. See Serve.
A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner.
“An 't please your honor,” quoth the peasant, “This same dessert is not so pleasant.”— Alexander Pope
Dessert spoon, a spoon used in eating dessert; a spoon intermediate in size between a teaspoon and a tablespoon. — Dessert-spoonful, noun, plural Dessert-spoonfuls, as much as a dessert spoon will hold, usually reckoned at about two and a half fluid drams.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54