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Meaning of Ketchup | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
ˈkɛt͡ʃ.əp

Definitions

  1. Ellipsis of tomato ketchup (“a tomato-vinegar-based sauce, sometimes containing spices, onion or garlic, and (especially in the US) sweeteners”).
    Canada, UK, US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable
  2. Such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes, but with mushrooms, fish, etc.). This is the older meaning.
    archaic, countable

Equivalents

العربية الصلصة عَصِير الْبَنْدُورَة كَتْشَب
Беларуская кетчуп
Bosanski kečap ketchup кечап
Català quètxup
Čeština kečup
Cymraeg cetsyp sos coch
Dansk ketchup
Deutsch Ketchup
Ελληνικά κέτσαπ
Esperanto keĉupo
Español képchup ketchup salsa de tomate
Suomi ketsuppi
Français ketchup
Gaeilge citseap
עברית קטשופ
Hrvatski kečap ketchup кечап
Magyar ketchup
Հայերեն կետչուպ
Bahasa Indonesia saus tomat
Íslenska tómatsósa
Italiano ketchup salsa rubra tomato
日本語 ケチャップ
ខ្មែរ ទឹកប៉េងប៉ោះ
한국어 케첩
Македонски доматен сос кечап
Bahasa Melayu kicap sos tomato
Nederlands ketchup tomatenketchup
Polski keczup ketchup
Português ketchup
Русский кетчуп тома́тный со́ус
Slovenčina kečup
Српски kečap ketchup кечап
Svenska ketchup
ไทย เค็ตชัป
Tagalog ketsap
Türkçe ketçap
Українська кетчуп
Tiếng Việt nước xốt cà chua tương cà

Examples

“tomato ketchup”
“This diner serves ketchup in red bottles, and mustard in yellow ones.”
“The bottles, however, were port bottles, but contained mushroom ketchup; […]”
“To accompany meat, we prepare fruit ketchups and rhubarb chutney.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

ketcot kete Ketelsen ketembilla ketena ketene

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