seasoning
English
noun
Definitions
- (cooking) Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.
- (figurative) Anything added to increase enjoyment.
- A coat of polymerized oil inside a cooking vessel which renders the surface non-stick.
- (archaic) An alcoholic intoxication.
- In diamond-cutting, the charging of the laps or wheels with diamond dust and oil.
Etymology
Affix from English season.
Origin
English
season
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Montreal English
- Montreal seasoning English
- interseason English
- intraseason English
- midseason English
- miniseason English
- multiseason English
- nonseason English
- overseason English
- postseason English
- preseason English
- reseason English
- season English
- seasonable English
- seasonage English
- seasonal English
- seasoner English
- seasonest English
- seasoneth English
- seasonful English
- seasonless English
- seasonlong English
- underseason English
- unseason English
- yesterseason English
- シーズン Japanese
- seson, sesoun Middle English