dessert
Plural: desserts
Noun
- The sweet course served at the end of a meal.
- a dish served as the last course of a meal
- The last course of a meal, consisting of fruit, sweet confections etc.
- A sweet dish or confection served as the last course of a meal.
Examples
- Can I see the dessert menu, please?
- I ordered hummus for a starter, a steak as the main course, and chocolate cake for dessert.
- Playing DESSERT on a triple-word score felt like a sweet victory at the end of the game.
- Trifle is a favourite dessert of the English, but rivalled by pavlova in Australia and New Zealand.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French dessert, from desservir (“disserve”), from dés- (“dis-”) and servir (“serve”), thus literally meaning “removal of what has been served”.
Note: It was erroneously suggested (e.g. in "Glucose syrups: Technology and Applications" (Peter Hull, 2010)) that the word is derived from the name of Benjamin Delessert, the inventor of beet sugar. However, the term predates him by at least a century.
Scrabble Score: 8
dessert: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddessert: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
dessert: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 8
dessert: valid Words With Friends Word