desserts
- 1Plural of dessert.
The pastry chef plated the desserts with a drizzle of raspberry sauce.
Most of the desserts on the menu were made without refined sugar.
Note
The plural belongs to the countable side of dessert: several dishes on a menu or a tray. When dessert names the course itself, it stays singular and uncountable (what's for dessert, room for dessert), so "we had desserts" suggests more than one dish. Mind the double s: deserts, with one, are arid lands, and also the noun in the idiom just deserts, which has nothing to do with sweets.
desserts is a form of dessert
dessert, noun: The sweet course eaten at the end of a meal, or a sweet dish such as cake, pudding, ice cream, or fruit served then. Full entry
- Forms
- dessertdesserts plural
- Spelling
- dessert → desserts: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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