gravy
UK/ˈɡɹeɪvi/
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British/ˈɡɹɛjvɪj/
gravy noun: a dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.
Noun
gravy (usually uncountable, plural gravies)
- A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.
- A roast dinner isn't complete without gravy.
- A pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce.
- There are few foods more Southern than biscuits and gravy.
- Sauce used for pasta.
- Curry sauce.
- With this the hostess poured two or three spoonfuls of the gravy of the curry on to the rice opposite to each person.1879, The Sunday at Home, volume 26, page 342
- Now it seems that Pa Senik was a little deaf. Awang noticed that his father-in-law sometimes poured the gravy of his curry on his rice and that sometimes he sucked it up.1906, Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, "Pa Senik and his Son-in-Law Awang", Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, page 59-60
- Unearned gain; extra benefit.
- The first thousand tickets and the concessions cover the venue and the band. The rest is gravy.
Verb
gravy (third-person singular simple present gravies, present participle gravying, simple past and past participle gravied)
- To make gravy.
- I mean simply this — that the process of canning and preserving or of gravying and saucing frequently removes the most vitally essential acids and salts […]1907, Edmond Raymond Moras, Autology (Study Thyself) and Autopathy (Cure Thyself), page 67
- Dola and another woman were so busy frying and grilling and buttering and gravying that they didn't even notice Bruce's existence.2013, Ivan Doig, Bucking the Sun, page 103
gravy meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
gravy in Hindi
- gravy, soup, broth
- रस ras
gravy in Marathi
- gravy, broth
- कढण kaḍhaṇ
gravy in Urdu
- gravy, soup, broth
- رس ras
gravy in Bengali
- sauce
- শীরা śira
More languagesFewer languages
- gravy in Telugu
- గ్రేవీ, గ్రేవి, గ్రేవీకి
- gravy in Malayalam
- കറി kaṟi
- gravy in Kannada
- ಮಾಂಸರಸ
- gravy in Punjabi
- ਗ੍ਰੇਵੀ, ਗਰੈਵੀ, ਗ੍ਰੇਵੀ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- gravy in Gujarati
- ગ્રેવી, ગ્રેવિ, ગ્રેવી કરવા માટે
- gravy in Odia
- ଗ୍ରେଭି, ଗ୍ରେଭି କରିବା ପାଇଁ, ଗ୍ରେଭି କରିବା
- gravy in Nepali
- ग्रेवी, ग्रेभी, ग्रेभी गर्न
- gravy in Arabic
- مَرَق maraq, مَرَقَة maraqa, صَلْصَة ṣalṣa
- gravy in Malay
- kuah
- gravy in Indonesian
- gravi
- gravy in Persian
- مرق marq, یخنی yaxni, سس sos, گریوی gereyvi
- gravy in Thai
- เกรวี gree-wîi
- gravy in Vietnamese
- nước chấm
- gravy in Myanmar
- ဟင်းရည် hang:rany
Examples of gravy in a sentence
- This is strained with a piece of cloth or a strainer and the green liquid forms the gravy of the curry.1992, Khammān Khonkhai, The Teachers of Mad Dog Swamp:
- Return flaked fish to curry gravy and bring to the boil.2007, Geok Boi Lee, Classic Asian Noodles, Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, page 158:
Forms of gravy
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | gravies |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | gravies |
| present participle | gravying |
| past participle | gravied |
| past | gravied |
Origin of gravy
From Middle English gravey, greavie, gravy; probably from greaves, graves (“the sediment of melted tallow”), or from Old French grave, a claimed misspelling of grané (“stew, spice”), from grain (“spice”). Sense of "pasta sauce" apparently seems to be from Italian dialect, especially Calabrian, differentiating tomato puree (salsa (“sauce”)) from cooked tomato sauce (sugo).
Words formed from gravy
Phrases with gravy
Words that rhyme with gravy
Questions about gravy
- What does gravy mean?
- Gravy means a dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.
- What is gravy in Hindi?
- Gravy in Hindi is रस (ras). See Gravy meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use gravy in a sentence?
- This is strained with a piece of cloth or a strainer and the green liquid forms the gravy of the curry.
- What part of speech is gravy?
- Gravy can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce gravy?
- Gravy is pronounced /ˈɡɹeɪvi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of gravy?
- The plural of gravy is gravies.
Words near gravy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: gravy (page history and authors); रस (Hindi) (page history and authors); कढण (Marathi) (page history and authors); رس (Urdu) (page history and authors); gravy (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); കറി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); gravy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gravy (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gravy (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gravy (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gravy (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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