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ganache

noun · verb · 4 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.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ɡəˈnæʃ/
  • /ɡəˈnɑːʃ/
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  • rhymes with -æʃ
  • rhymes with -ɑːʃ

1

noun

Meaning 1

A rich sauce, made of chocolate and cream, used also as the filling of truffles, and as a glaze.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A kind of surcoat with short cap sleeves.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, historical, uncountable

Examples

  • , The Medieval Wedding Planner, Lyle MacPherson Male clothing was worn in layers of a tunic, cote, or cotte with a surcoat over a linen shirt. [...] a long sleeveless tunic. When sleeves (and sometimes a hood) were added, the cyclas became a ganache (a cap-sleeved surcoat, usually shown with hood of matching color) or a gardcorps (a long, generous-sleeved travelling robe).
  • 2001, John Steane, The Archaeology of Power: England and Northern Europe, AD 800-1600, Tempus Pub Limited Illuminated miniatures show them in long robes of plain or rayed material, hoods and coifs. [...] shows a man 6ft in length dressed in a ganache or tabard with two tongues or labels at the neck and a coif tied round his head.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: garnache

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A fool

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

verb

Meaning 4

To coat with ganache.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • to ganache the sides of a cake

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Borrowed from French ganache, from Italian ganascia (“jaw”), ultimately from Ancient Greek γνάθος (gnáthos) (see gnatho-).

Across languages

Translations

22 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: гана́ш (ganáš) — sauce
  • Chinese Mandarin: 伽納徹 /伽纳彻 (gānàchè) — sauce
  • Esperanto: ganaĉo — sauce
  • Finnish: ganache — sauce
  • French: ganache — sauce
  • German: Ganache — sauce
  • German: Pariser Creme — sauce
  • German: Ganachecreme — sauce
  • Hungarian: párizsi krém — sauce
  • Hungarian: ganázskrém — sauce
  • Hungarian: ganázs — sauce
  • Indonesian: ganace — sauce
  • Italian: crema ganache — sauce
  • Japanese: ガナッシュ (ganasshu) — sauce
  • Korean: 가나슈 (ganasyu) — sauce
  • Portuguese: ganache — sauce
  • Russian: гана́ш (ganáš) — sauce
  • Spanish: ganash — sauce
  • Spanish: ganache — sauce
  • Turkish: ganaj — sauce
  • Bulgarian: глазирам с ганаш (glaziram s ganaš) — glaze with chocolate sauce
  • French: ganacher — glaze with chocolate sauce