dish

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
2. (countable, uncountable) The contents of such a vessel.
3. (countable, metonymically, uncountable) A specific type of prepared food.
4. (countable, in-plural, uncountable) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.
5. (countable, uncountable) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
6. (countable, slang, uncountable) A sexually attractive person.
7. (countable, dated, uncountable) The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
8. (countable, uncountable) A hollow place, as in a field.
9. (countable, slang, uncountable) The home plate.
10. (archaic, countable, uncountable) A trough in which ore is measured.
11. (archaic, countable, uncountable) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
12. (slang, uncountable) Gossip.

Verb

1. (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
2. (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
3. (slang) To insult, speak ill of.
4. (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
5. (archaic, slang, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.

Synonyms

plate

bowl

tray

vessel

course

food

🍽️

platter

saucer

cup of tea

dish aerial

stunner

receptacle

container

basin

serve

looker

bag

serve up

dish up

dish out

dishful

knockout

fish

🐟

shallow gully

wooden dish

dish antenna

beauty

smasher

sweetheart

coolamon

satellite dish

ravisher

mantrap

peach

🍑

lulu

disc

cup

dosage

disk

corrupt

cooking

blight

dishes

lips

👄

jag

discuss

chamfer

blemish

hollow

hit

Translations

plat

piatto

plato

prato

Gericht

Schüssel

schotel

pietanza

gerecht

fuente

assiette

πιάτο

plat

bord

طبق

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: dissh

Inherited from Old English: disċ

Cognate with Scots: disch

Cognate with Dutch: dis

Cognate with German: Tisch

Cognate with Danish: disk

Cognate with Swedish: disk

Cognate with Icelandic: diskur

Cognate with Finnish: tiski

In summary

From Middle English dissh, disch, from Old English disċ (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”) (whence also Proto-Slavic *dъska, whence Bulgarian дъска́ (dǎská), Polish deska, Russian доска́ (doská)), Russian чан (čan)) from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, disk, and diskos.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots disch (“dish; plate”), Dutch dis (“table”), German Low German Disk, Disch (“table”), German Tisch (“table”), Danish disk (“dish; counter”), Swedish disk (“dish; counter”), Icelandic diskur (“dish; plate”), Finnish tiski (“desk, counter; dish”).
Compare the identical meaning expansion (vessel for food, then also content of such a vessel, then also specific type of food): Bulgarian блю́до (bljúdo), Russian блю́до (bljúdo). For the roundness aspect compare Polish rondel (“pan, saucepan”) (< Latin rotundus (whence also English round)). Also compare typologically Proto-Slavic *misъka << Latin mēnsa; Ancient Greek πίναξ (pínax) (several meanings).

Sentences

Apple pie is an iconic dish .