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compote

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmpəʊt/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmpɒt/
  • General-American: /ˈkɑmpoʊt/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: K AA1 M P OW0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A dessert made of fruit cooked in sugary syrup.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A dish used for serving fruit.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

dessert of stewed or baked fruit

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fruit compote

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: dessert, sweet, afters

History

Etymology

Borrowed from French compote. Doublet of composite, compost, and kompot.

Across languages

Translations

31 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: կոմպոտ (kompot) — fruit dessert
  • Bulgarian: компот (kompot) — fruit dessert
  • Chinese Mandarin: 蜜餞 /蜜饯 (mìjiàn) — fruit dessert
  • Czech: kompot — fruit dessert
  • Danish: kompot — fruit dessert
  • Dutch: compote — fruit dessert
  • Esperanto: kompoto — fruit dessert
  • Estonian: kompott — fruit dessert
  • Finnish: kompotti — fruit dessert
  • French: compote — fruit dessert
  • German: Kompott — fruit dessert
  • Greek: κομπόστα (kompósta) — fruit dessert
  • Hungarian: kompót — fruit dessert
  • Italian: composta — fruit dessert
  • Japanese: コンポート (konpōto) — fruit dessert
  • Kazakh: нәрсу (närsu) — fruit dessert
  • Kazakh: компот (kompot) — fruit dessert
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kompott — fruit dessert
  • Polish: kompot — fruit dessert
  • Portuguese: compota — fruit dessert
  • Romanian: compot — fruit dessert
  • Russian: компо́т (kompót) — fruit dessert
  • Serbo-Croatian: ко̀мпо̄т — fruit dessert
  • Serbo-Croatian: kòmpōt — fruit dessert
  • Slovene: kompot — fruit dessert
  • Spanish: compota — fruit dessert
  • Swedish: kompott — fruit dessert
  • Turkish: komposto — fruit dessert
  • Turkish: hoşaf — fruit dessert
  • Yiddish: קאָמפּאָט (kompot) — fruit dessert
  • Bulgarian: купа (kupa) — dish used for serving fruit