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DELICATESSEN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does delicatessen mean?
• DELICATESSEN (noun)
The noun DELICATESSEN has 2 senses:
1. ready-to-eat food products
2. a shop selling ready-to-eat food products
Familiarity information: DELICATESSEN used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ready-to-eat food products
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
delicatessen; delicatessen food
Hypernyms ("delicatessen" is a kind of...):
convenience food (any packaged dish or food that can be prepared quickly and easily as by thawing or heating)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A shop selling ready-to-eat food products
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("delicatessen" is a kind of...):
shop; store (a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "delicatessen"):
charcuterie (a delicatessen that specializes in meats)
Context examples
I took him into the pantry where he looked a little reproachfully at the Finn. Together we scrutinized the twelve lemon cakes from the delicatessen shop.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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