dessert

Meanings

Plural: desserts

Noun

a dish served as the last course of a meal
The last course of a meal, consisting of fruit, sweet confections etc.
A sweet dish or confection served as the last course of a meal.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French dessert, from desservir (“disserve”), from dés- (“dis-”) and servir (“serve”), thus literally meaning “removal of what has been served”.
Note: It was erroneously suggested (e.g. in "Glucose syrups: Technology and Applications" (Peter Hull, 2010)) that the word is derived from the name of Benjamin Delessert, the inventor of beet sugar. However, the term predates him by at least a century.

Synonyms

afters, pudding, sweet

Scrabble Score: 8

dessert is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
dessert is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
dessert is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

dessert is a valid Words With Friends word