seasoning
seasoning noun: something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice. Also the present participle and gerund of season.
Noun
seasoning (countable and uncountable, plural seasonings)
- Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.
- To distinctify the seasoning, add grated fresh ginger, finely minced green chili (serrano or jalapeno), or chopped fresh herbs: cilantro, mint, thyme.1989, Yoga Journal, number 89, page 82
- “We use it in drinks. We use it in desserts. We use it in savory food. It’s in almost everything. Salt, sugar and MSG – I always joke that they’re the Chinese Trinity of seasonings.”2024 January 2, Maggie Hiufu Wong, “MSG is the most misunderstood ingredient of the century. That’s finally changing”, in CNN
- Anything added to increase enjoyment.
- A coat of polymerized oil inside a cooking vessel which renders the surface non-stick.
- An alcoholic intoxication.
- Some of our gentlemen officers, happening to stop at a tavern, or rather a sort of grogshop, took such a seasoning that two or three of them became “quite frisky.”
- Synonyms:
- drunkenness
- In diamond-cutting, the charging of the laps or wheels with diamond dust and oil.
- The air drying of wood.
Also used as
seasoning is also the present participle and gerund of season.
seasoning meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Tagalog
seasoning in Hindi
- cooking ingredient
- तड़का taṛkā, छौंक cha͠uk, बघार baghār, मसाला masālā
seasoning in Urdu
- cooking ingredient
- مصالحہ masālha
seasoning in Bengali
- cooking ingredient
- চাট্নি caṭni
seasoning in Tagalog
- cooking ingredient
- panlig-ing, pampalasa, pampasarap, lig-ing
More languagesFewer languages
- seasoning in Arabic
- بَهَار bahār, تَابِل tābil, تَابَل tābal, أَبْزَار ʔabzār
- seasoning in Malay
- perasa, pengeringan
- seasoning in Indonesian
- bumbu, pengeringan
- seasoning in Persian
- چاشنی čâšni
- seasoning in Thai
- เครื่องปรุงรส krʉ̂ʉang-bprung-rót
- seasoning in Vietnamese
- gia vị
Examples of seasoning in a sentence
- A piece of timber sometimes springs in seasoning.
- The crunch! - which has that addictive crumb full of the everything-everywhere-all-at-once seasoning.
- Salt, sugar and MSG – I always joke that they’re the Chinese Trinity of seasonings.”
Synonyms of seasoning
Forms of seasoning
| plural | seasonings |
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Origin of seasoning
From season + -ing.
From Middle English seasonyng, present participle of Middle English sesounen (“to season”), equivalent to season + -ing.
Words formed from seasoning
Questions about seasoning
- What does seasoning mean?
- Seasoning means something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.
- What is seasoning in Hindi?
- Seasoning in Hindi is तड़का (taṛkā), छौंक (cha͠uk), बघार (baghār). See Seasoning meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is seasoning?
- Seasoning is a noun.
- What is the plural of seasoning?
- The plural of seasoning is seasonings.
Words near seasoning in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: seasoning (page history and authors). 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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