pudding

1. 1.

   any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes

   “corn pudding”

   Broaderdish

   Narrowercarrot puddingcorn pudding
2. 2.

   (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally)

   Synonymspud

   Broaderdessert

   Narrowertrifle

   United Kingdom

3. 3.

   any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed

   Broaderdessert

   Narrowerflummeryplum puddingsteamed puddingduffvanilla puddingchocolate puddingbrown BettyNesselrodepease puddingtapioca pudding

Other forms of pudding

plural

puddings·

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 pudding

What does pudding mean?

pudding means "any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pudding?

pudding has 2 syllables: pud-ding. The stress falls on "pud". In IPA it is /ˈpʊdɪŋ/.

What is another word for pudding?

Close synonyms include pud. 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 pudding a common word?

pudding is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.