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/spaɪs/ · noun
(countable, uncountable) Aromatic or pungent plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavor food..
Vanilla itself was transplanted from Madagascar, the main source of the spice, to Polynesia a century ago.
What spice level do you want for your pad thai? I recommend mild.
variety is the spice of life
Honor, a^([sic]) 18-year-old high school student who thinks she has it more together than her fellow students and who looks to both Leslie and Bernie to provide friendship and spice in her life.
Let's go daan to t'spice shop an see what they've i stock
"I'm not going to promise anything after the perfectly fetid way you're running off," she retorted. "Still, it's pretty obvious that I shall stay here and do what I can for poor Geoffrey in the circumstances." It occurred to the hearer […] that there was a spice of "It is my duty and I will" in this praiseworthy resolve which fell short of the ecstatic resolution of the Saturday Nora.
Madame de Pompadour was fond of chocolates spiced with vanilla and amber.
City Men is pretty much the same kind of sentimental comedy spiced with wisecracks as The Women, a disappointingly familiar genre.
Use spice when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Spice means (countable, uncountable) Aromatic or pungent plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavor food..
Common synonyms include spiciness, zest, spicery, spice up.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Vanilla itself was transplanted from Madagascar, the main source of the spice, to Polynesia a century ago.
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