dish
dish
/dɪʃ/
1 countable a flat shallow container for cooking food in or serving it from a baking/serving dish
a casserole dish
in a dish Bake in a shallow dish for 45 mins.
dish of something They helped themselves from a large dish of pasta.
Collocations
adjective
preposition
in a/the dish
2 often the dishes plural the plates, bowls, cups, etc. that have been used for a meal and need to be washed I'll do the dishes (= wash them).
My first real job was washing dishes in a restaurant.
Collocations
adjective
verb + the dishes
3 countable food prepared in a particular way as part of a meal a vegetarian/fish/meat/pasta dish
This makes an excellent hot main dish.
I decided to cook his favourite dish.
to prepare/serve a dish
dish of something a savoury dish of curried rice and lamb
I can recommend the chef's dish of the day.
Collocations
adjective
verb + dish
phrases
the dish of the day
4 countable any object that is like a dish or bowl in shape a soap dish
5 countable (old-fashioned, informal) a sexually attractive person What a dish!
dish
/dɪʃ/
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Word Origin
Old English disc ‘plate, bowl’ (related to Dutch dis, German Tisch ‘table’), based on Latin discus, from Greek diskos.