dish

The word “dish” means a shallow container used for serving or holding food. In plain terms, a plate or bowl, a type of food, or (informally) to serve food or spill gossip.

“Dish” is pronounced dihsh (/dɪʃ/ in IPA).

Here is “dish” used in a sentence: “She set a dish of olives on the table.”

Depending on how it is used, “dish” can be a noun and a verb.

The word “dish” comes from Latin. From Old English disc, from a West Germanic word for "table" or "dish," ultimately borrowed from Latin discus — the same root that gave us "desk" and "discus.".

“Dish” is a fairly common word in modern English, usually learned at around the A1 level.

“Dish” has 5 distinct senses listed in this dictionary. The most common is: a shallow container used for serving or holding food.

A plate is a flat item you eat from, whereas a dish is usually a deeper, shallow-sided container used for serving or holding food. 'Dish' is also a general word for any piece of crockery and for a prepared food itself.

A bowl is deep and rounded for holding liquids or loose food, while a dish is typically shallower and often used for serving. In everyday use the terms overlap, and 'doing the dishes' covers all the dirty crockery.

To 'dish out' means to hand out or distribute something, as in 'dish out advice,' while to 'dish the dirt' means to share gossip. Both are informal extensions of the food-serving sense of dish.