Seasoning

Quick meaning: Seasoning is a noun meaning (cooking) Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.

Meaning

(cooking) Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.

More Meanings

1. (figurative, by extension) Anything added to increase enjoyment.
2. A coat of polymerized oil inside a cooking vessel which renders the surface non-stick.
3. In diamond-cutting, the charging of the laps or wheels with diamond dust and oil.
4. The air drying of wood.
5. present participle and gerund of season
6. (archaic) An alcoholic intoxication.

Example Sentences

To distinctify the seasoning, add grated fresh ginger, finely minced green chili (serrano or jalapeno), or chopped fresh herbs: cilantro, mint, thyme.

Some of our gentlemen officers, happening to stop at a tavern, or rather a sort of grogshop, took such a seasoning that two or three of them became “quite frisky.”

“We use it in drinks. We use it in desserts. We use it in savory food. It’s in almost everything. Salt, sugar and MSG – I always joke that they’re the Chinese Trinity of seasonings.”

Word Forms

• seasonings

Synonyms for seasoning

Depending on context, synonyms include drunkenness, seasoner, flavoring, flavouring, flavorer, flavourer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include seasoner, flavoring, flavourer, flavorer, flavouring, spice.

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