Standard Lemma guide

flambé

adj · noun · verb · 5 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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1

adj

Meaning 1

Being, or having been, flambéed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Decorated by glaze splashed or irregularly spread upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Topics: ceramics, chemistry, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A showy cooking technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A flambéed dish.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

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Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • “Flambé the dessert”, ordered the Chef, “but take the dish off the heat before adding the brandy or you'll burn your eyebrows off.”

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Borrowed from French flambé.

Across languages

Translations

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Finnish: liekitettävä — being or having been flambéed
  • Finnish: liekitetty — being or having been flambéed
  • French: flambé — being or having been flambéed
  • Polish: flambirowany — being or having been flambéed
  • Portuguese: flambado — being or having been flambéed
  • Swedish: flamberad — being or having been flambéed
  • Finnish: liekitys — cooking technique
  • Finnish: flambeeraus — cooking technique
  • Indonesian: flambe — cooking technique
  • Japanese: フランベ (furanbe) — cooking technique
  • Polish: flambirowanie — cooking technique
  • Swedish: flambering — cooking technique
  • Finnish: liekitys — act of flambéing
  • Finnish: flambeeraus — act of flambéing
  • Japanese: フランベ (furambe) — act of flambéing
  • Polish: flambirowanie — act of flambéing
  • Swedish: flambering — act of flambéing
  • Finnish: liekitetty ruokalaji — flambéed dish
  • Finnish: flambeerattu ruokalaji — flambéed dish
  • Polish: flambirowana potrawa — flambéed dish
  • Catalan: flamejar — to add and ignite alcohol to food
  • Czech: flambovat — to add and ignite alcohol to food
  • Danish: flambere — to add and ignite alcohol to food
  • Finnish: liekittää — to add and ignite alcohol to food
  • Finnish: flambeerata — to add and ignite alcohol to food
  • French: flamber — to add and ignite alcohol to food
  • Galician: flamexar — to add and ignite alcohol to food
  • German: flambieren — to add and ignite alcohol to food
  • Hungarian: flambíroz — to add and ignite alcohol to food
  • Italian: fiammeggiare — to add and ignite alcohol to food
  • Japanese: フランベ (furambe) — to add and ignite alcohol to food
  • Polish: flambirować — to add and ignite alcohol to food
  • Portuguese: flambar — to add and ignite alcohol to food
  • Spanish: flambear — to add and ignite alcohol to food
  • Swedish: flambera — to add and ignite alcohol to food