plate
A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
Example
“I filled my plate from the bountiful table.”
Other meanings
Such dishes collectively.
“A valuable collection of silver plate was donated to the museum.”
The contents of such a dish.
“I ate a plate of beans.”
Kinds of plate
- dessert plate
- dinner plate
- paper plate
- salad plate
- soup plate
- steel plate
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "πλατύς" (broad, flat, wide).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “plate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.