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- DictionaryStew/sto͞o/
noun
- 1. a dish of meat and vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a closed dish or pan: "lamb stew"
- 2. a state of great anxiety or agitation: informal "I suppose he's all in a stew"
verb
- 1. (with reference to meat, fruit, or other food) cook or be cooked slowly in liquid in a closed dish or pan: "a new way to stew rhubarb"
STEW definition: 1. a type of food consisting usually of meat or fish and vegetables cooked slowly in a small amount…. Learn more.
1. a. A dish cooked by stewing, especially a mixture of meat or fish and vegetables with stock. b. A mixture likened to this dish. 2. Informal Mental agitation: in a stew over the lost keys. 3. often stews Archaic A brothel.
A stew is a combination of solid food ingredients that have been cooked in liquid and served in the resultant gravy. Ingredients can include any combination of vegetables and may include meat, especially tougher meats suitable for slow-cooking, such as beef, pork, venison, rabbit, lamb, poultry, sausages, and seafood.
To stew is to slowly cook food, which results in a soup-like food called a stew. To stew also means to brood angrily. If you cook something slowly, like beef or vegetables, you stew it. The result of stewing is also called stew, which is usually chunky, like a thick soup.
Definition of stew noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
a dish made of vegetables and meat cooked together slowly in liquid: beef / lamb stew. stew. verb [ T ] to cook food slowly in liquid: stewed fruit. (Definition of stew from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of stew. in Chinese (Traditional) （通常由肉或魚加蔬菜製成的）燉菜，燜菜, 燉，煨，用文火煮, 生氣，發火… See more.
Origin of stew 1 First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English steuen, stuwe “to take a sweat bath,” from Middle French estuver, verbal derivative of estuve “sweat room of a bath”; see origin at stove 1
