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noun
A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.
A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable, usually
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.
A pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-US, countable, uncountable, usually
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noun
Sauce used for pasta.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Qualifier: chiefly Italian-American
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noun
Curry sauce.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India, Singapore, uncountable, usually
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noun
Unearned gain; extra benefit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, uncountable, usually
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verb
To make gravy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: boom, bonanza, gold rush, godsend, manna from heaven, windfall, bunce
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
noun
the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pan gravy
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: juice
noun
a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sauce
History
From Middle English gravey, greavie, gravy; probably from greaves, graves (“the sediment of melted tallow”), or from Old French grave, a claimed misspelling of grané (“stew, spice”), from grain (“spice”). Sense of "pasta sauce" apparently seems to be from Italian dialect, especially Calabrian, differentiating tomato puree (salsa (“sauce”)) from cooked tomato sauce (sugo).
Across languages
104 source translations are retained for this English entry.
