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Definition: Marmalade |
MarmaladeNoun1. A preserve made of the pulp and rind of citrus fruits. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "marmalade" was first used: 1480. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of eating marmalade, denotes sickness and much dissatisfaction. For a young woman to dream of making it, denotes unhappy domestic associations. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Marmalade is a sweet conserve made from fruit, sugar and (usually) a gelling agent. In British English the term almost invariably refers to a conserve derived from orangess or from some other citrus fruit. Typically the recipe will include sliced fruit peel and will prescribe a long cooking time in order to soften the peel. Such marmalade is most often consumed on toasted bread as part of a Full English breakfast. The favoured orange variety for marmalade production is a large, sour, late ripening variety originally from Seville in Spain.
In some languages of continental Europe a word sharing a root with 'marmalade' refers to all gelled fruit conserves, and those derived from citrus fruits merit no special word of their own. This linguistic difference has occasionally been claimed as emblematic of the irreconcibility of anglophone and continental world views.
The Scottish city of Dundee has a long association with marmalade. The oft related story of how this came about begins sometime in the 1700s when a Spanish ship with a cargo of Seville oranges, docked in Dundee harbour to shelter from storms. A grocer by the name of James Keiller bought a vast amount of the cargo at a knockdown price, but found it impossible to sell the bitter oranges to his customers. He passed the oranges on to his wife Janet who used them instead of the normal quinces to make a fruit preserve. The marmalade proved extremely popular and the Keiller family went in to business producing marmalade. However this is almost complete fiction. The truth is that in 1797, James Keiller who was unmarried at the time and his mother Janet opened a factory to produce "Dundee Marmalade", that is marmalade containing thick chunks of orange rind, this recipe (probably invented by his mother) being a new twist on the already well-known fruit preserve of orange marmalade.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Marmalade."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sweetness | Sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna; confection, confectionary; sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture, jam, julep; sugar-candy, sugar-plum; licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat; apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose; maple sirup, maple syrup, maple sugar; mithai, sorghum, taffy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Marmalade |
| English words defined with "marmalade": Biscotin, bitter orange ♦ citrange ♦ genus Streptosolen ♦ marmalade box, marmalade bush, marmalade orange, marmalade plum, marmalade tree, Marmalet ♦ orange marmalade ♦ Quiddany ♦ Sapotaceous, Seville orange, sour orange, Streptosolen. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "marmalade": Marmalade. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "marmalade": mellifluous, melon. (references) |
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Screenplays | Well done Bridge, 4 hours of careful cooking and a feast of blue soup, omelette and marmalade. (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding) | |
Lyrics | He met Marmalade down in ol' Moulin Rouge ("Lady Marmalade"; performing artist: Christina Aguilera) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Marmalade Boy (1994) Educating Marmalade (1981) | |
Song Titles | LADY MARMALADE (performing artist: PINK, OTHERS C. AGUILERA) | |
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Trade | Denmark | Most foods are covered by the general regulation on labelling of foods, but certain foods are covered by specific regulations as well, e.g. fish products, chocolate, fruit juice, marmalade products and food supplements. (references) |
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| "Marmalade" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.10% of the time. "Marmalade" is used about 155 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.1% | 135 | 27,360 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.1% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.52% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.65% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.65% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 155 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "marmalade": marmalade box ♦ marmalade bush ♦ marmalade orange ♦ marmalade plum ♦ marmalade tree ♦ orange marmalade. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "marmalade": marmalade-like. | |
Ending with "marmalade": toast-and-marmalade. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Albanian | marmelatë (jam, sauce), reçel (confiture, conserve, jam), gliko (jam). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المرملاد مربى من قشور الحمضيات. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | конфитюр от портокали. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 橘子果酱. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | marmeláda (jam), pomeranèový džem, pomeranèová zavařenina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | marmelade (jam, marmelade), orangemarmelade (orange marmalade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | marmelade (jam, marmelade), sinaasappelmarmelade (orange marmalade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | marmelaati (jam, jelly sweets), appelsiinihillo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | marmelade d'oranges (orange marmalade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Marmelade (jam, jelly, marmelade), Orangenmarmelade (orange marmalade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μαρμελάδα (jam). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מרמל"", מרקחת (confection, jam, mixture spices). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | narancslekvár (squish), lekvár (creampuff, cream-puff, jam, jelly, preserve, wimp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | marmellata (jam). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | マージン取引 (10^-6, Maastrich, marble, march, margin transaction, mart, martini, merchandiser, merchandising, merchandising right, merchant, mermaid, Miami, micro, micro-, mike, my, privately owned car). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | マーマレード . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 마말 이". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | soo oranje, marmalaid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | armalademay marmelada (quince jam), margoso, doce de laranja (orange marmalade), doce de fruta. (various references) marmeladã, gem (jam). (various references) confitura. (various references) конфитюр (confiture), варенье (confiture, jam, pozzy), джем (jam, pozzy, spread). (various references) marmelada. (various references) mermelada (jam, marmelade). (various references) marmelad (jam, marmelade), apelsinmarmelad. (various references) marmelat, portakal reçeli. (various references) конфітюр (confiture), мармелад. (various references) mứt cam. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | melimelum. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "marmalade": marmalades. (additional references) | |
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"Marmalade" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: armleder, Mamaluke, Maraldi, Margadale, Marmalada, marmelade, marmeladey, marmellata, martmalade. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "marmalade" (pronounced mÄ"rmulā'd) |
| 4 | -u l ā' d | accolade, fusillade. |
| 3 | -l ā' d | downplayed, inlaid, overlaid, parlayed, relayed, switchblade, waylaid. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-e-l-m-m-r" | |
-2 letters: alameda, alarmed, almemar. | |
-3 letters: armada, dammar, dammer, dermal, lammed, madame, marled, medlar, rammed. | |
-4 letters: alarm, alder, areal, armed, damar, derma, drama, dream, lader, lamed, lamer, lemma, madam, madre, malar, medal, realm. | |
-5 letters: alae, alar, alma, alme, area, dale, dame, dare, deal, dear, derm, dram, earl, lade, lama, lame, lard, lead, lear, maar, made, male. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-d-e-l-m-m-r" | |
+1 letter: marmalades. | |
+3 letters: diagrammable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 72 6D 61 6C 61 64 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- .-. -- .- .-.. .- -.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01110010 01101101 01100001 01101100 01100001 01100100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a r m a l a d e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0072 006D 0061 006C 0061 0064 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)476784796778677071 |
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