gelee

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noun

Any gelled suspension made for culinary purposes.

OriginFrench gelée →
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Meanings

gelee1

noungelee (countable and uncountable, plural gelees)

plural gelees · alternative gelée

  1. countableuncountableAny gelled suspension made for culinary purposes.

    While they were puzzling over it, another course arrived: three tiny monkey dishes, each holding two cubes of gelee, set atop glass bowls in which live Siamese fighting fish swam listlessly back and forth.

    2006, Poppy Z. Brite, chapter 19, in Soul Kitchen: A Novel (Rickey and G-man; 4), New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 257

gelee2

noungelee (plural gelees)

plural gelees

  1. alternativeAlternative form of gele (“type of women’s headwrap”).

Origin

  1. Frenchgelée
  2. Englishgelee

From the French gelée. Doublet of jelly.

More words from French

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Translations

Czech želé
  • želéany gelled suspension made for culinary purposes
Finnish hyytelö, hyydyke
  • hyytelöany gelled suspension made for culinary purposes
  • hyydykeany gelled suspension made for culinary purposes
French gelée
  • geléeany gelled suspension made for culinary purposes
German Gelee
  • Geleeany gelled suspension made for culinary purposes
Turkish jöle, pelte
  • jöleany gelled suspension made for culinary purposes
  • pelteany gelled suspension made for culinary purposes

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Elgee
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APA

gelee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gelee

MLA

“gelee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gelee. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gelee,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gelee.

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