Compote

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  • noun. Fruit stewed or cooked in syrup.
  • noun. A long-stemmed dish used for holding fruit, nuts, or candy.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Fruit stewed or preserved in syrup, sometimes with spices.
  • noun. Same as compotier.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A preparation of fruit in sirup in such a manner as to preserve its form, either whole, halved, or quartered.
  • noun. a bowl-shaped dish having a stem, and a base smaller than the bowl, used to serve compotes or other items, such as candies, nuts, or fruit; a compote dish. Compotes may be made of different materials, such as glass, porcelain, or silver.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A dessert made of fruit cooked in sugary syrup.
  • noun. A dish used for serving fruit.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. dessert of stewed or baked fruit
    • Word Usage
    "And no clue what to do with them all, other than that compote from a couple days ago and a pie or two."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    afters  dessert  sweet  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ancients'  borscht  botheration  caliche  curculio  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    compote dish  compotier  preserver  
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