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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"
The meaning of STEW is a utensil used for boiling. How to use stew in a sentence.
STEW definition: 1. a type of food consisting usually of meat or fish and vegetables cooked slowly in a small amount…. Learn more.
a type of food consisting usually of meat or fish and vegetables cooked slowly in a small amount of liquid: lamb / bean / fish stew. She prepared a hearty stew for dinner.
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.
noun. a preparation of meat, fish, or other food cooked by stewing, especially a mixture of meat and vegetables. Synonyms: ragout, casserole. Informal. a state of agitation, uneasiness, or worry. a brothel; whorehouse. stews, a neighborhood occupied chiefly by brothels. Obsolete. a vessel for boiling or stewing. stew.
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.
A stew is a meal which you make by cooking meat and vegetables in liquid at a low temperature.
Definition of stew noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
STEW definition: 1. a dish made of vegetables and meat cooked together slowly in liquid: 2. to cook food slowly in…. Learn 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
