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say it: SMAWR-guhs-bawrd
smorgasbord is a noun meaning "a collection containing a variety of sorts of things". It is pronounced /ˈsmɔɹɡəsˌbɔɹd/ — SMAWR-guhs-bawrd. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
“a great assortment of cars was on display”
“he had a variety of disorders”
“a veritable smorgasbord of religions”
an assortment of foods starting with herring or smoked eel or salmon etc with bread and butter; then cheeses and eggs and pickled vegetables and aspics; finally hot foods; served as a buffet meal
Scandinavia
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for smorgasbord come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.