different between valley vs dessert

English

Etymology

From Middle English valey, valeye, from Anglo-Norman valey, Old French valee (compare French vallée), from Latin vall?s/vallis. Doublet of vlei.

Pronunciation

• enPR: v?l'?, IPA^(key): /?væli/
• Rhymes: -æli

Noun

valley (plural valleys)

1. An elongated depression between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.

   Synonyms: (poetic) vale; see also Thesaurus:valley
2. The area which drains into a river.
3. Any structure resembling one, e.g., the meeting point of two pitched roofs.
4. The internal angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.

Hyponyms

• closed-cut valley
• open valley

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• dale
• dell
• vale

Anagrams

• y'all've

Manx

Noun

valley

1. Lenited form of balley.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French dessert, from desservir (“disserve”), from dés- (“dis-”) and servir (“serve”), thus literally meaning “removal of what has been served”.

Note: It was erroneously suggested (e.g. in "Glucose syrups: Technology and Applications" (Peter Hull, 2010)) that the word is derived from the name of Benjamin Delessert, the inventor of beet sugar. However, the term predates him by at least a century.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??z??t/
• (US) enPR: d?-zûrt, IPA^(key): /d??z?t/
• Homophone: desert (verb)
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Noun

dessert (countable and uncountable, plural desserts)

1. A sweet confection served as the last course of a meal

Synonyms

• (sweet final course of a meal): afters (UK informal), pudding (UK), sweet (UK)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (dez?to)

Translations

Anagrams

• deserts, tressed

Danish

Etymology

From French dessert, from desservir (“disserve”), from dés- (“dis-”) and servir (“serve”).

Noun

dessert c (singular definite desserten, plural indefinite desserter)

1. dessert

Inflection

Further reading

• “dessert” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French dessert, from desservir (“disserve”), from dés- (“dis-”) and servir (“serve”), thus literally meaning “removal of what has been served”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??s?r/, /d??s?rt/
• Hyphenation: des?sert
• Rhymes: -?r, -?rt

Noun

dessert n (plural desserten or desserts, diminutive dessertje n)

1. A dessert.

   Synonyms: nagerecht, naspijs, toespijs, toetje

Derived terms

• dessertkaart

Descendants

• Afrikaans: dessert

Estonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

dessert (genitive desserdi, partitive desserti)

1. dessert

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• magustoit

Further reading

• dessert in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.s??/

Noun

dessert m (plural desserts)

1. dessert, pudding

Derived terms

• cuillère à dessert

Descendants

Verb

dessert

1. third-person singular present indicative of desservir

Further reading

• “dessert” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• déserts

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French dessert

Noun

dessert m (definite singular desserten, indefinite plural desserter, definite plural dessertene)

1. dessert

References

• “dessert” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French dessert

Noun

dessert m (definite singular desserten, indefinite plural dessertar, definite plural dessertane)

1. dessert

References

• “dessert” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romansch

Noun

dessert m (plural desserts)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) dessert

Synonyms

• (Sutsilvan) dultsch

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

dessert n (plural desserts, diminutive dessertsje)

1. dessert

Further reading

• “dessert”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011