dish

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /dɪʃ/

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Noun

Singular dish

Plural dishes

A dish and a knife

1. (countable) Dishes are the flat round holder for food that we usually put on the table and eat off of.

   There was a crash when the waiter dropped his tray of dishes on the floor.

2. (countable) A dish is a particular kind of cooked or prepared food.

   Last night she made a wonderful Indian dish that I had never eaten before.

Verb

Plain form dish

Third-person singular dishes

Past tense dished

Past participle dished

Present participle dishing

1. (informal) To dish is to gossip about something or somebody.