Definition of dishes

"dishes" in the noun sense

1. dish

a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food

"we gave them a set of dishes for a wedding present"

2. dish

a particular item of prepared food

"she prepared a special dish for dinner"

3. dish, dishful

the quantity that a dish will hold

"they served me a dish of rice"

4. smasher, stunner, knockout, beauty, ravisher, sweetheart, peach, lulu, looker, mantrap, dish

a very attractive or seductive looking woman

5. dish, dish aerial, dish antenna, saucer

directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation

6. cup of tea, bag, dish

an activity that you like or at which you are superior

"chemistry is not my cup of tea"

"his bag now is learning to play golf"

"marriage was scarcely his dish"

"dishes" in the verb sense

1. serve, serve up, dish out, dish up, dish

provide (usually but not necessarily food

"We serve meals for the homeless"

"She dished out the soup at 8 P.M."

"The entertainers served up a lively show"

2. dish

make concave shape like a dish

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Quotations for dishes

New dishes beget new appetites. [ Proverb ]

Many dishes bring many diseases. [ Pliny ]

All her dishes are chafing-dishes. [ Proverb ]

Tasting so many dishes shows a dainty stomach. [ Seneca ]

Twas a public feast and public day -
Quite full, right dull, guests hot, and dishes cold,
Great plenty, much formality, small cheer.
And everybody out of their own sphere. [ Byron ]

He that revels in a well-chosen library has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor. [ William Godwin ]

Simple diet is best; for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other. [ Pliny ]

When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him. [ Addison ]

dishes in Scrabble®

The word dishes is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters dishes:

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dishes in Words With Friends™

The word dishes is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters dishes:

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Words within the letters of dishes

2 letter words in dishes (5 words)

3 letter words in dishes (8 words)

4 letter words in dishes (7 words)

5 letter words in dishes (5 words)

6 letter words in dishes (Anagrams) (2 words)

dishes + 1 blank (2 words)

Words containing the sequence dishes

Words that start with dishes (1 word)

Words with dishes in them (1 word)

Word Growth involving dishes

Shorter words in dishes

is dish

he hes

he she

Longer words containing dishes

blandishes

brandishes rebrandishes

petridishes

radishes horseradishes

tolldishes