Compote

Definition: Compote

Compote

Noun

1. Dessert of stewed or baked fruit.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "compote" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)

Etymology: Compote \Com"pote\, noun. [French expression See Compost.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Compote

Food

Alligator pear, apple; apple slump; artichoke; ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey; chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut.

Receptacle

Compote, gravy boat, creamer, sugar bowl, butter dish, mug, pitcher, punch bowl, chafing dish.

Crosswords: Compote

French (compote, stewed fruit).

Consumer Goods

• English Garden Compote (reference)

• Waterford Lismore Compote (reference)

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Expressions using "compote": Compote dish ♦ fruit compote. Additional references.

Albanian

komposto (conserve). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاكهة مطبوخة بالسكر, ‏كومبوت, ‏طبق خاص بالكبوت. (various references)

Czech

kompot. (various references)

Danish

kompot (compote of fruit). (various references)

Dutch

compote (compote of fruit), vruchtenmoes (compote of fruit, fruit purée). (various references)

Farsi 

کمپوت , خوشاب . (various references)

French

compote (compote of fruit). (various references)

German

kompott (sauce, stewed fruit). (various references)

Greek 

κομπόστα (stewed fruit). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפתן (dessert, fruit salad, pudding, relish, sweet). (various references)

Hungarian

kompót, befõtt (conserve, preserve). (various references)

Italian

composta (stewed fruit), frutta cotta. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

コン�"ュータ�"�語 (combo, comfrey, competition, complement, complete, completion, complex, compliance, compliment, component, component stereo, component type, composer, composite, composite index, composition, compost, compress, compressor, computation, computer communication, computerese, computing, computopia, computopolis, con brio, confection, confectionery, conference, confession, configuration, conflict, conform, conformism, convention, convention bureau, convention center, convention hall, conventional, conveyor, conveyor system, convoy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

コンポート . (various references)

Pig Latin

ompotecay

Portuguese

compota (jam, marmelade, preserves). (various references)

Romanian

compot (sauce, stewed fruit). (various references)

Russian 

компот. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kompot. (various references)

Spanish

compota (preserve, sauce, stewed fruit), preparación de compota. (various references)

Swedish

kompott. (various references)

Turkish

komposto (sauce), hoşaf. (various references)

Ukrainian

компот. (various references)

Vietnamese 

mứt quả (comfit). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "compote": compotes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Compote" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Accompte, Bompito, combite, comot, compite, complt, comporter, composto, compot, compoter, compte, comptea, comput, computa, computum, comroe, Condotti, Komotau, Kozponti, Momote. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: coempt.

-2 letters: comet, compo, compt, comte, coopt, tempo.

-3 letters: come, comp, coop, coot, cope, cote, moot, mope, mote, poco, poem, poet, pome, temp, tome, toom, tope.

-4 letters: cep, coo, cop, cot, met, moc, moo, mop, mot, oot, ope, opt, pec, pet, pom, pot, toe, tom, too, top.

-5 letters: em, et, me, mo, oe, om, op.

+1 letter: compotes.

+2 letters: component, comported, composite, composted, ectomorph.

+3 letters: competitor, completion, complotted, components, composited, composites, copromoter, ectomorphs, mythopoeic, optometric, outcompete.

+4 letters: bicomponent, compensator, competition, competitors, completions, comportment, compositely, comptroller, computerdom, copromoters, cosmopolite, ectomorphic, hemopoietic, homeopathic, mesotrophic, mucoprotein, mythopoetic, noncomputer, omnipotence, outcompeted, outcompetes, photometric, phytochrome, proctodaeum, thermoscope.

+5 letters: chemotropism, companionate, compellation, compensation, compensators, compensatory, competitions, complexation, componential, comportments, comptrollers, computerdoms, contemplator, contemporary, contemporize, contemptuous, cosmopolites, macropterous, monophyletic, morphometric, mucoproteins, omnipotences, onomatopoeic, oophorectomy, outcompeting, photochemist, photocompose, phytochromes, proctodaeums, subcomponent, thermocouple, thermoscopes, thermotropic.