side dish

Questions about side dish

What does side dish mean?

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

What is another word for side dish?

Close synonyms include side order, entremets. 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 side dish a common word?

side dish is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for side dish come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.