entremets

1. 1.

   a dish that is served with, but is subordinate to, a main course

   Synonymsside dishside order

   Broaderdish

   Narrowermushy peasraita

   Part ofmeal

Other forms of entremets

plural

entremetses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about entremets

What does entremets mean?

entremets means "a dish that is served with, but is subordinate to, a main course".

How many syllables are in entremets?

entremets has 3 syllables: en-tre-mets. The stress falls on "en".

What is another word for entremets?

Close synonyms include side dish, side order. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is entremets a common word?

entremets is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.