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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A shop that sells cooked or prepared foods ready for serving.
  2. n. Ready-to-serve foods such as cheeses, cold cooked meats, and salads.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Delicacies; delicate or dainty articles of food, implying, in German use, sausages and the like.

Wiktionary

  1. n. countable A shop that sells cooked or prepared foods ready for serving.
  2. n. Delicacies; exotic or expensive foods.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Relishes for the table; dainties; delicacies.
  2. n. ready-to-eat foods, such as cold cuts, cooked meats, and prepared salads.
  3. n. a store or section of a store where delicatessen{2} is sold.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. ready-to-eat food products
  2. n. a shop selling ready-to-eat food products

Etymologies

  1. 1864. From German Delikatessen, plural of Delikatesse ("fine food"), from French délicatesse, from delicat ("fine"), from Latin delicatus ("alluring"). (Wiktionary)
  2. German Delikatessen, from pl. of Delikatesse, delicacy, from French délicatesse, from Italian delicatezza, from delicato, delicate, dainty, from Latin dēlicātus, pleasing; see delicate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Did you know that "delicatessen" is German for "pleasing things to eat"?”

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  • “** I bought this on a trip to Spain, it should be available in Spanish delicatessen or via mail order.”

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  • “The first place we see is a delicatessen, which is about my favorite kind of place to eat anyway.”

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  • “I guessed it from his early use of the word 'delicatessen'.”

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  • “The professor has deciphered the word 'Nesseta-ciled' by reversal: it is 'delicatessen' ...”

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  • “When they had saved three thousand dollars they married and put into effect the plan which had been their chief subject of conversation every day and every evening for ten years -- they opened the "delicatessen" in Avenue A, near Second Street.”

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  • “They claim that its success has grown out of the close relationship between wholesalers of staple British fare and high quality "delicatessen" retailers who have moved in over the past decade.”

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  • “Today I taught myself a way to absolutely remember how to spell "delicatessen" .... spell "delicates" and add "sen.”

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  • “It had the appearance of a reckless attempt to buy out a whole delicatessen shop.”

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  • “He felt certain that it could not accommodate two of his delicatessen counters, and he knew that he could lose all of it in one of his storerooms.”

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. dainties
  1. delicacies

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  1. convenience food

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Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Essen
  1. caisson
  1. cresson
  1. lessen
  1. lesson

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  1. charcuterie
  1. delicatessen
  1. deli

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