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PRESERVES

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fruit preserved by cooking with sugar

Synonyms:

conserve; conserves; preserve; preserves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("preserves" is a kind of...):

confiture (preserved or candied fruit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "preserves"):

apple butter (thick dark spicy puree of apples)

chowchow (a Chinese preserve of mixed fruits and ginger)

jam (preserve of crushed fruit)

lemon cheese; lemon curd (a conserve with a thick consistency; made with lemons and butter and eggs and sugar)

jelly (a preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit)

marmalade (a preserve made of the pulp and rind of citrus fruits)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (third person singular) of the verb preserve

Credits

 Context examples: 

In the centre of some of the best preserves in the kingdom, surrounded by three great proprietors, each more careful and jealous than the other; and to two of the three at least, Charles Hayter might get a special recommendation.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She had caught a cold and it made her voice huskier and more charming than ever and Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)