Dessert

Definition: Dessert

Dessert

Noun

1. A sweet served as the last course of a meal.

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

Date "dessert" was first used: 1600. (references)

Etymology: Dessert \Des*sert"\, noun. [French expression, from desservir to remove from table, to clear the table; prefix des- (L. dis-) servir to serve, to serve at table. See Serve.]. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Dessert

Food

Meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal; blowout; light refreshment; bara, chotahazri; bara khana.

Crosswords: Dessert

Danish (dessert), Dutch (dessert), French (dessert, sweet), German (dessert, sweet), Italian (afters, dessert, pudding, sweet), Norwegian (dessert), Romansch (dessert), Swedish (dessert, entremets).

Green lime jello for dessert. (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass)

Hold the whipped cream; I just had dessert. (Airport; writing credit: Arthur Hailey; George Seaton)

Let's take this wine and put it over here 'til dessert. (Filthy Rich; writing credit: Barry E. Blitzer; Linda Bloodworth-Thomason)

Do you realize I had my dessert wrapped in those papers (Duck Soup; writing credit: Bert Kalmar ; Harry Ruby)

Now eat your dessert like a good boy. (Catch-22; writing credit: Buck Henry)

On Tesco's Tiramisu dessert (printed on bottom): "Do not turn upside down. (references; author: unknown)

Junge Debütantinnen 20: Arschfick zum Dessert (2002)

Talking Dessert (1997)

Til You Mow the Lawn No Dessert Dad (1994)

Teenage Dessert (1976)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Dessert Mixes (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• The Diabetic Dessert Cookbook (reference)

• The Gluten-free Gourmet Makes Dessert (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• No Dessert Dad 'Til You Mow The Lawn (reference)

• No Dessert Dad Untill You Mow (reference)

• The Frugal Gourmet: Wine and Dessert (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Halfinch Dessert [IMPORT] (reference)

• Life or Dessert (reference)

• Sweet Dessert Soul [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Musso 4080 Lussino Dessert Maker (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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(2) color slides show a glass dessert cup of raspberry sherbet. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

Shown is marinated beef steak with potato vegetable salad. Choose lean cuts of meat and trim all fat. Serve fruit for dessert. Potato salad can be made with low fat dressing instead of mayonnaise. This was a poster in the "Healthy Eating Tips" series. See artwork: PV-30. Credit: Len Rizzi (photographer).

Dr. W.H. Groves Latter-Day Saints Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT. : Frozen dessert and bread container/refrigerator in the kitchen. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Stops for a helping of dessert from Ship's Cook 2nd Class William Barry, as she goes through a "chow" line at Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Virginia, during World War II. Credit: NAVY.

The dessert [e.g. desert]. Credit: Library of Congress.

A Dessert of fruit. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Trade

Philippines

Category I includes: bakery & bakery related products; non-alcoholic beverages & beverage mixes; candies & confectionery products; cocoa & cocoa related products; coffee, tea & non-dairy creamer; condiments, sauces & seasonings; culinary products; gelatin, dessert preparation & mixes; dairy products; dressings & spreads; flour/flour mixes & starch; fish & other marine products; fruits, vegetable & edible fungi (prepared); meat and poultry products (prepared); noodles, pastas & pastry wrapper; nut & nut products; native delicacies; oils, fats & shortening; snack foods & breakfast cereals and; sugar & other related products. (references)

Travel

Austria

Whatever type of restaurant or inn you select, be sure to check out the daily specials (Tagesmenu), which typically mean a three-course meal (appetizer/soup, entrée and dessert) for one low price. (references)

Czech Rep

Czechs prefer to get to know you -- to learn about your background and your company, and then, if they are comfortable with you, get down to deal-making around the dessert course, or even at a follow-up meeting. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "dessert": dessert apple ♦ dessert plate ♦ dessert service ♦ Dessert spoon ♦ dessert wine ♦ frozen dessert ♦ gelatin dessert. Additional references.

Beginning with "dessert": dessert-plates, dessert-spoonful, Dessert-spoonfuls.

Ending with "dessert": Durand-dessert.

Containing "dessert": legion-meets-dessert-storm.

Afrikaans

nagereg. (various references)

Albanian

lugë ëmbëlsire (dessert spoon). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وجبة أخيرة, ‏حلوى (candy, confection, confetti, fudge, goody, sweet, sweetmeat, taffy), ‏العقبة فاكهة يختم بها الطعام. (various references)

Asturian

postre. (various references)

Bemba

ifyalowa. (various references)

Blackfoot

aoó'ssin. (various references)

Bulgarian 

десерт (sweet). (various references)

Catalan

postre. (various references)

Cebuano

panghinam-is. (various references)

Chamorro

fina'mames (cake). (various references)

Chinese 

甜點 , 点心. (various references)

Cornish

gorfen-prýs. (various references)

Czech

dezert (afternoons), zákusek (cake), mouèník (afters, cake, pastry). (various references)

Danish

dessert. (various references)

Dutch

toetje, nagerecht, dessert. (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

misquicuna. (various references)

Esperanto

deserto, postmanĝaĵo. (various references)

Faeroese

omaná. (various references)

Farsi 

دندان مز (Toothsome), دسر. (various references)

Finnish

jälkiruoka (sweet). (various references)

French

dessert. (various references)

Frisian

neigesetsje. (various references)

German

Nachtisch (sweet, sweets), Dessert (sweet). (various references)

Greek 

επιδόρπιο. (various references)

Hebrew 

לפתן (compote, fruit salad, pudding, relish, sweet), קנוח סעודה, פרפרת, אפטרה (farewell speech, haftarah). (various references)

Hungarian

desszert (afters, sweet). (various references)

Indonesian

makanan pencuci mulut, kue-kue. (various references)

Inuktitut

siiqnaqtuq. (various references)

Irish

milseog. (various references)

Italian

dessert (afters, pudding, sweet). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

デオキシリボ核酸 (10^-1, carving, crepe de Chine, cutting up, decadence, decadent, decadentism, decanter, deci-, decibel, decimal, decimal point, decision, decision making, decision room, declamation, decode, decoder, decoding, decompiler, decorated cake, decoration, decoy, decrement, decrescendo, degree, deodorant, deoxyribo, deoxyribo nucleic acid, desert, design, design policy, design promoter, designer, designer brand, design-in, desire, dessert wine, digital, digital analog, digital art, digital audio tape recorder, digital computer, digital speedometer, digital television, Dixie, Dixieland, Dixieland jazz, fancy cake, low status, low-cut, transfer). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

デザート (desert), デサール . (various references)

Korean 

디저트. (various references)

Macedonian

desert. (various references)

Manx

milljag ambee jerrinagh. (various references)

Norwegian

dessert. (various references)

Pig Latin

essertday.(various references)

Portuguese

sobremesa (toppings). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

sobremesa. (various references)

Provencal

dessèrt. (various references)

Romanian

desert (sweets). (various references)

Romansch

dessert. (various references)

Russian 

десерт десертный, десерт (zabaglione). (various references)

Samoan

vaimalu. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

desert, slatkiš (confection, dainty, goody, sweet, sweetmeat). (various references)

Sicilian

frutta. (various references)

Spanish

postre (afters, pudding, sweet, whip). (various references)

Swedish

efterrätt (afters, pudding, sweet, sweets), dessert (entremets). (various references)

Turkish

tatlı (afters, agreeable, amiable, beautiful, blancmange, delightful, dulcet, fruity, honeyed, honied, luscious, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellow, pleasant, saccharine, sapid, silken, silky, smooth, soft, suave, subtile, subtle, sugary, sweet, sweetie, sweeties, sweetmeat, toothsome), meyve (Berry, fruit, product). (various references)

Ukrainian

десерт (afters). (various references)

bellaria. (various references)

dessert. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dessert": desserts, dessertspoon, dessertspoonful, dessertspoonfuls, dessertspoons, dessertspoonsful. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dessert" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Besserat, daesert, Dassert, deasert, deassert, desart, descret, Deseart, deser, deseret, deserta, deserti, Desierto, Desmet, desperd, desrt, D'essai, dessart, dessau, Desse, dessent, desserte, Dessler, dessrt, Deusser, Dezsoe, Disert, Disser, dosseret, dosset, Dysert, gesserit. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: deserts, tressed.

-1 letter: desert, deters, esters, reests, resets, rested, seders, serest, steeds, steers, steres.

-2 letters: deers, deets, deter, drees, dress, drest, erses, ester, redes, reeds, reest, reset, rests, seder, seeds, seers, sered, seres, steed, steer, stere, terse, treed, trees, tress.

-3 letters: deer, dees, deet, dere, dree, erst, eses, rede, reds, reed, rees, rest, rete, rets, seed.

+1 letter: asserted, desserts, diesters, dosseret, editress, oersteds, resisted, sistered, stressed.

+2 letters: bestrides, cursedest, deemsters, deforests, delusters, dempsters, desalters, deserters, destriers, detesters, dextroses, digesters, dissenter, disserted, dopesters, dosserets, dressiest, headrests, pederasts, persisted, redigests, residents, restudies, sederunts, shrewdest, siderites, speedster, steadiers, tendresse, tiredness, treadless, undersets.

+3 letters: adulteress, advertises, assertedly, asterisked, buttressed, defrosters, depressant, dermatoses, dermestids, desecrates, desertions, desolaters, destroyers, detersives, diestruses, directness, directress, disreputes, disrespect, dissenters, dissertate, distempers, distressed, distresses, dosimeters, editresses, extradoses, fortressed, hotpressed, missteered, outdressed, outdresses, outpressed, predigests, presidents, reasserted, reassorted, redbreasts, redeposits, reductases, restressed, rootedness, seductress, seedeaters, semidesert, servitudes, sidestream, sidestroke, slenderest, smartweeds, somerseted, speedsters, spideriest, stampeders, steelyards, stevedores, stewardess, streambeds, streamside, stridences, teargassed, tenderness, tendresses, threadless, trendiness, trespassed, unstressed, waitressed, watersheds, watersides, yesterdays.