main course

English

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Noun

main course (plural main courses)

1. The main serving or dish of a meal, usually cooked.

   Synonyms: main, main dish

   Coordinate terms: dessert, entrée, second course, starter

Usage notes

• In the Philippines, a main course has two parts, the viand and the rice. Neither one can be soley referred to as a main course.

Translations

main dish of a meal

• Afrikaans: hoofgereg
• Bulgarian: основно ястие n (osnovno jastie), основно блюдо n (osnovno bljudo) (dated)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 主菜 (zh) (zhǔcài)

• Danish: hovedret (da) c
• Dutch: hoofdgerecht (nl) n
• Esperanto: ĉefmanĝo
• Finnish: pääruoka (fi)
• French: plat principal (fr) m, plat de résistance (fr) m
• Georgian: მთავარი კერძი (mtavari ḳerʒi)
• German: Hauptgericht (de) n
• Greek: κύριο πιάτο (el) n (kýrio piáto)
• Hungarian: főfogás (hu), főétel (hu)
• Icelandic: aðalréttur (is) m
• Italian: portata principale f
• Japanese: メインコース (mein kōsu), メイン料理 (mein ryōri)
• Korean: 메인 코스 (mein koseu), 메인 요리 (mein yori)
• Latin: summa cena f
• Māori: ōmatua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hovedrett m

  Nynorsk: hovudrett m

• Polish: danie główne n, drugie danie (pl) n
• Portuguese: prato principal m
• Russian: второ́е блю́до (ru) n (vtoróje bljúdo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: главно јело n

  Latin: glavno jelo n

• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: głowna jěza f, głowna jěsć f

• Spanish: plato principal m
• Swedish: huvudrätt (sv) c
• Vietnamese: món chính

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