English > dessert: 1 sense > noun 1, food| Meaning | A dish served as the last course of a meal. |
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| Synonyms | sweet, afters |
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| Narrower | ambrosia | fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut |
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| baked Alaska | cake covered with ice cream and meringue browned quickly in an oven |
| blancmange | sweet almond-flavored milk pudding thickened with gelatin or cornstarch |
| charlotte | A mold lined with cake or crumbs and filled with fruit or whipped cream or custard |
| compote, fruit compote | dessert of stewed or baked fruit |
| dumpling | dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry |
| flan | open pastry filled with fruit or custard |
| frozen dessert | Any of various desserts prepared by freezing |
| junket | dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet |
| mold, mould | A dish or dessert that is formed in or on a mold |
| mousse | A rich, frothy, creamy dessert made with whipped egg whites and heavy cream |
| pavlova | A dessert consisting of a meringue base or cup filled with fruit and whipped cream |
| peach melba | Ice cream and peaches with a liqueur |
| pudding | Any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed |
| pudding, pud | (British) the dessert course of a meal ('pud' is used informally) |
| syllabub, sillabub | sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor |
| 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 |
| whip | A dessert made of sugar and stiffly beaten egg whites or cream and usually flavored with fruit |
| zabaglione, sabayon | light foamy custard-like dessert served hot or chilled |
| Broader | course | Part of a meal served at one time |
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| Spanish | dulce, postre, postres |
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| Catalan | dolç, postres |
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