sauce

noun
/sɔːs/

A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.

Other meanings

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A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

A kind of

condiment

Kinds of sauce

anchovy sauce
hot sauce
hard sauce
horseradish sauce
bread sauce
plum sauce
peach sauce
dressing

Example sentences

“Could you please pass the hot sauce?”
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“What's your favorite dipping sauce for onion rings?”
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“I'm making a red sauce.”
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Word history

From Latin "salsus" (salted).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “sauce” 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.