adj
Meaning 1
Of a pale pinkish brown colour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Standard Lemma guide
bisque
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Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /bɪsk/
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CMU ARPABET: B IH1 S K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A thick creamy soup made from fish, shellfish, meat or vegetables.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- lobster bisque
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noun
Meaning 3
A pale pinkish brown colour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A form of unglazed earthenware; biscuit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: ceramics, chemistry, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
An extra turn, free point or some other advantage allowed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Meaning 6
An extra turn, free point or some other advantage allowed.
A free turn in a handicap croquet match.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Meaning 7
An extra turn, free point or some other advantage allowed.
A free point in a handicap real tennis match.
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Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Meaning 8
Exemption from work or other duty on a particular day.
A day's leave an employee may take without warning or reason and not be counted as annual leave.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: British, historical
Qualifier: chiefly BBC
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noun
Meaning 9
Exemption from work or other duty on a particular day.
Permission for an MP to be absent from a vote, granted by the whips when the absence is not likely to affect the outcome.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: British
Qualifier: British parliament
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verb
Meaning 10
To prepare ceramics in the bisque style.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 11
a thick cream soup made from shellfish
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: soup
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French bisque, possibly from Biscaye.
Borrowed from French bisque, of unknown origin; Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, suggests a comparison with Spanish bisca (“gambling house, gambling den”).
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: bisque — thick creamy soup
- Finnish: bisque — thick creamy soup
- Finnish: kermainen keitto — thick creamy soup
- French: bisque — thick creamy soup
- German: Bisque — thick creamy soup
- Greek: μπισκ (bisk) — thick creamy soup
- Ido: bisko — thick creamy soup
- Japanese: ビスク (bisuku) — thick creamy soup
- Malay: biska — thick creamy soup
- Polish: bisque — thick creamy soup
- Russian: густо́й суп (gustój) — thick creamy soup
- Czech: biskvit — form of unglazed earthenware
- Finnish: biskviitti — form of unglazed earthenware
- Finnish: bisque — form of unglazed earthenware
- French: biscuit — form of unglazed earthenware
- German: Schrühware — form of unglazed earthenware
- Polish: biskwit — form of unglazed earthenware
- Polish: biskwitować — Translations