vanilla extract

1. 1.

   a flavoring prepared from vanilla beans macerated in alcohol (or imitating vanilla beans)

   Synonymsvanilla

   Broaderflavorer

Questions about vanilla extract

What does vanilla extract mean?

vanilla extract means "a flavoring prepared from vanilla beans macerated in alcohol (or imitating vanilla beans)".

What is another word for vanilla extract?

Close synonyms include vanilla. 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 vanilla extract a common word?

vanilla extract 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.