TOPPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does topping mean? 

• TOPPING (noun)
  The noun TOPPING has 1 sense:

1. a flavorful addition on top of a dish

  Familiarity information: TOPPING used as a noun is very rare.

• TOPPING (adjective)
  The adjective TOPPING has 1 sense:

1. excellent; best possible

  Familiarity information: TOPPING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOPPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A flavorful addition on top of a dish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

garnish (something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "topping"):

frosting; ice; icing (a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes)

glaze (any of various thin shiny (savory or sweet) coatings applied to foods)

meringue (sweet topping especially for pies made of beaten egg whites and sugar)

whipped cream (cream that has been beaten until light and fluffy)

streusel (a crumbly topping for a pastry)

Holonyms ("topping" is a part of...):

dish (a particular item of prepared food)

• TOPPING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Excellent; best possible

Synonyms:

top-flight; top-hole; topping

Similar:

superior (of high or superior quality or performance)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

On they rode, and on, until, at last, topping a ridge, they looked down upon the fateful valley.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Palm oil, the most widely used vegetable oil in the world with total sales in 2018 topping US$30 billion dollars, contributes greatly to the GDP of several tropical countries.

(Greener palm oil possible without sacrificing profit, SciDev.Net)

One huge gingko tree, topping all the others, shot its great limbs and maidenhair foliage over the fort which we had constructed.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This even tint was indeed broken up by streaks of yellow sand-break in the lower lands, and by many tall trees of the pine family, out-topping the others—some singly, some in clumps; but the general colouring was uniform and sad.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Topping the heathy down, they came of a sudden full in sight of the old sea-port—a cluster of houses, a trail of blue smoke, and a bristle of masts.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The comrades hurried onwards eagerly, and topping the brow of a small rising they saw upon the other side the source from which these strange noises arose.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From Vinney Ridge to Rhinefield Walk the woods grow thick and dense up to the very edges of the track, but beyond the country opens up into broad dun-colored moors, flecked with clumps of trees, and topping each other in long, low curves up to the dark lines of forest in the furthest distance.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On either side, as the path mounted, the long sweep of country broadened and expanded, sloping down on the one side through yellow forest and brown moor to the distant smoke of Lymington and the blue misty channel which lay alongside the sky-line, while to the north the woods rolled away, grove topping grove, to where in the furthest distance the white spire of Salisbury stood out hard and clear against the cloudless sky.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)