Synonyms for dish
dɪʃdish

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1. dishnoun

   Synonyms:
   plate, plateful, fox, dishful, babe

2. dishnoun

   To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.

   The restaurant dished up a delicious Italian brunch.

   Synonyms:
   dishful, plate, plateful, babe, fox

3. dishnoun

   The contents of such a vessel.

   a dish of stew

   Synonyms:
   dishful, plateful, babe, fox, plate

4. dishnoun

   A specific type of prepared food.

   Synonyms:
   plate, plateful, babe, fox, dishful

5. dishnoun

   Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.

   It's your turn to wash the dishes.

   Synonyms:
   fox, babe, dishful, plateful, plate

6. dishnoun

   a type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl, as in satellite dish, radar dish

   Synonyms:
   fox, plate, plateful, babe, dishful

7. dishnoun

   A sexually attractive person.

   Synonyms:
   babe, fox, plate, dishful, plateful

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1. dishnoun

   a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food

   "we gave them a set of dishes for a wedding present"

   Synonyms:
   dish aerial, bag, stunner, sweetheart, dish antenna, dishful, peach, ravisher, mantrap, beauty, cup of tea, looker, knockout, lulu, saucer, smasher

2. dishnoun

   a particular item of prepared food

   "she prepared a special dish for dinner"

   Synonyms:
   dish aerial, bag, stunner, sweetheart, dish antenna, dishful, peach, ravisher, mantrap, beauty, cup of tea, looker, knockout, lulu, saucer, smasher

3. dish, dishfulnoun

   the quantity that a dish will hold

   "they served me a dish of rice"

   Synonyms:
   sweetheart, stunner, lulu, bag, mantrap, cup of tea, smasher, beauty, saucer, dish aerial, looker, ravisher, dishful, knockout, peach, dish antenna

4. smasher, stunner, knockout, beauty, ravisher, sweetheart, peach, lulu, looker, mantrap, dishnoun

   a very attractive or seductive looking woman

   Synonyms:
   apricot, bag, mantrap, violator, dishful, hit, dish aerial, viewer, smash, peach tree, truelove, beauty, salmon pink, strike, kayo, watcher, saucer, peach, yellowish pink, cup of tea, looker, debaucher, sweetheart, spectator, smasher, stunner, ravisher, witness, steady, beaut, sweetie, dish antenna, bang, lulu, knockout

5. dish, dish aerial, dish antenna, saucernoun

   directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation

   Synonyms:
   sweetheart, stunner, disc, lulu, bag, mantrap, cup of tea, smasher, disk, beauty, saucer, dish aerial, looker, discus, ravisher, dishful, knockout, peach, dish antenna

6. cup of tea, bag, dishverb

   an activity that you like or at which you are superior

   "chemistry is not my cup of tea"; "his bag now is learning to play golf"; "marriage was scarcely his dish"

   Synonyms:
   sweetheart, stunner, old bag, peach, bag, handbag, cup of tea, udder, base, smasher, dishful, beauty, saucer, travelling bag, mantrap, dish aerial, looker, pocketbook, purse, bagful, ravisher, grip, traveling bag, knockout, lulu, suitcase, dish antenna

7. serve, serve up, dish out, dish up, dishverb

   provide (usually but not necessarily food)

   "We serve meals for the homeless"; "She dished out the soup at 8 P.M."; "The entertainers served up a lively show"

   Synonyms:
   serve, process, parcel out, help, dish up, answer, lot, dish out, function, mete out, attend to, dispense, deal out, suffice, attend, dole out, service, assist, serve up, allot, administer, wait on, serve well, swear out, distribute, do, shell out, deal

8. dishverb

   make concave; shape like a dish

   Synonyms:
   serve up, dish up, dish out, serve

Matched Categories

1. • Container
   • Directional Antenna
   • Dishware
   • Nutriment
   • Shape

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dishnoun

   Synonyms:
   PLATTER

2. dishnoun

   Synonyms:
   viand, article of food

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1. dishnoun

   Synonyms:
   vessel, utensil, receptacle

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1. List of paraphrases for "dish":

   parabolic, flat, saucer, capsule, parable, plat, plate, dishes, receptacle, reflector, antenna, platter

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1. Michael Psilakis:

   Every week you need to dedicate about two hours of your time to get all of this stuff ready, we would call it ‘mise en place’ in the restaurant — how we cook in a restaurant is going to be how I want you to cook at home. If you prepare yourself and you have all your ingredients ready, all of your ‘mise’ in place, all of your stuff is right in front of you, then to make the dish is really just assembling.

2. Ed Wronski:

   I always say when we create a dish for four, we need to be able to do that same dish for 40 or 400.

3. Bianca Phillips:

   It's that traditional centerpiece, that protein source, that acts as the main dish.

4. Fabrice:

   Artichoke is a real dish for the poor..; it's the only one that, when you have finished eating, you have more in your plate than when you started. (Michel Colucci known as Coluche)

5. Francesco Agopyan:

   It has the typical sweetness of a crab, combined with a sapid, savory flavor due to the saltiness of the lagoon waters, it is a very popular dish, especially among Venetians but also by others. It's a special dish.