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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

シチュー

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shichū

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Stew/stuː/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"夕食に温かいビーフシチューを作りました。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A dish of meat and vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a closed dish or pan.

    "She prepared a hearty beef stew with root vegetables for the cold winter evening."
As verb
  1. 1

    To cook or be cooked slowly in liquid at a temperature at or near boiling.

    "Let the chunks of beef stew gently for two hours until tender."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English 'stewen', meaning to bathe or keep in hot water, originating from Old French 'estuver' (to heat, bathe, stew), and ultimately from Vulgar Latin *extyphare. The meaning shifted over the centuries from a bathhouse or heated room to a dish of meat and vegetables simmered slowly in liquid.

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