/sɔːs/
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Translation
A thick liquid that you put on food to give it more taste.
Word origin
From Old French sauce, from Latin salsa, meaning salted things, from sal, salt.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- salsa
- English cognates
- salad, salt
Grammar
Gender
Pluralsauces
Examples
chips?
Sauce is the thick liquid you add to food.
pasta.
Here "sauce" is a cooked liquid poured over food.
more .
"Sauce" is usually uncountable, so it takes "more", not a number.
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