JULIENNE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does julienne mean? 

• JULIENNE (noun)
  The noun JULIENNE has 2 senses:

1. a vegetable cut into thin strips (usually used as a garnish)

2. a clear soup garnished with julienne vegetables

  Familiarity information: JULIENNE used as a noun is rare.

• JULIENNE (verb)
  The verb JULIENNE has 1 sense:

1. cut into long thin strips

  Familiarity information: JULIENNE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JULIENNE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vegetable cut into thin strips (usually used as a garnish)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

julienne; julienne vegetable

Hypernyms ("julienne" is a kind of...):

veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A clear soup garnished with julienne vegetables

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("julienne" is a kind of...):

soup (liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food)

• JULIENNE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cut into long thin strips

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

julienne the potatoes

Hypernyms (to "julienne" is one way to...):

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

The chefs julienne the vegetables