🇬🇧🇨🇳 condiment - 调味品 : English Lesson

Meaning of "condiment" ("调味品"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A condiment is something you add to your food to change or improve the taste. It is not the main part of the meal, like the burger or the noodles. Instead, it is the extra tasty stuff on top or on the side, like ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, soy sauce, salt, or pepper. You can squeeze it, shake it, or scoop it onto your food to make it sweeter, saltier, spicier, or just more delicious.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

The barbecue sauce condiment stuck to my fingers so well I nearly became a walking chicken wing.

The hot dog was so plain that the condiments held a meeting to decide who would save it.

Mom said, “Use one condiment,” so I invented a new one by mixing seven together like a mad scientist.

I used so much hot sauce condiment that my tongue tried to file a complaint.

Ketchup, one of the most popular condiments, used to be made from fish and mushrooms instead of tomatoes—imagine that on your fries!

At the picnic a small boy set three jars in a row and called each a condiment. He dabbed a condiment on his fries, then tried a second condiment on his sandwich, then sprinkled a third condiment on his eggs. His friend tasted each, grinned, and said the best condiment was the one they shared. They ate happily.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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