"main course" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: main courses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} main course (plural main courses)
  1. The main serving or dish of a meal, usually cooked. Categories (topical): Foods Synonyms: main, main dish Translations (main dish of a meal): основно ядене (osnovno jadene) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 主菜 (zhǔcài) (Chinese Mandarin), hovedret [common-gender] (Danish), hoofdgerecht [neuter] (Dutch), ĉefmanĝo (Esperanto), pääruoka (Finnish), plat principal [masculine] (French), plat de résistance [masculine] (French), მთავარი კერძი (mtavari ḳerʒi) (Georgian), Hauptgericht [neuter] (German), κύριο πιάτο (kýrio piáto) [neuter] (Greek), főfogás (Hungarian), főétel (Hungarian), aðalréttur [masculine] (Icelandic), portata principale [feminine] (Italian), メインコース (mein kōsu) (Japanese), メイン料理 (mein ryōri) (Japanese), summa cena [feminine] (Latin), hovedrett [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), hovudrett [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), danie główne [neuter] (Polish), drugie danie [neuter] (Polish), prato principal [masculine] (Portuguese), второ́е блю́до (vtoróje bljúdo) [neuter] (Russian), главно јело [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), glavno jelo [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), plato principal [masculine] (Spanish), huvudrätt [common-gender] (Swedish), món chính (Vietnamese)

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          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
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          "sense": "main dish of a meal",
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "main dish of a meal",
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          "lang": "Greek",
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          "sense": "main dish of a meal",
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
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        },
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "main dish of a meal",
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          "code": "is",
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          "sense": "main dish of a meal",
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "main dish of a meal",
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          ],
          "word": "portata principale"
        },
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          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "mein kōsu",
          "sense": "main dish of a meal",
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          "sense": "main dish of a meal",
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          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "main dish of a meal",
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          "sense": "main dish of a meal",
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vtoróje bljúdo",
          "sense": "main dish of a meal",
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          ],
          "word": "второ́е блю́до"
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          "sense": "main dish of a meal",
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          ],
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          "sense": "main dish of a meal",
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          ],
          "word": "huvudrätt"
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          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "main dish of a meal",
          "word": "món chính"
        }
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      ],
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      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
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      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
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      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
      "word": "ĉefmanĝo"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
      "word": "pääruoka"
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      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
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    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
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      "word": "plat de résistance"
    },
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "mtavari ḳerʒi",
      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
      "word": "მთავარი კერძი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "Hauptgericht"
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    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "kýrio piáto",
      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "κύριο πιάτο"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
      "word": "főfogás"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
      "word": "főétel"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "aðalréttur"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "portata principale"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mein kōsu",
      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
      "word": "メインコース"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mein ryōri",
      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
      "word": "メイン料理"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "summa cena"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hovedrett"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hovudrett"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "danie główne"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "drugie danie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prato principal"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vtoróje bljúdo",
      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "второ́е блю́до"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
      "tags": [
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        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "главно јело"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "glavno jelo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "plato principal"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "huvudrätt"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "main dish of a meal",
      "word": "món chính"
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