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# casserole

«casserole» in Mova's school dictionary: **a dish of meat, vegetables or beans cooked slowly in the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a casserole, casseroles); verb (casserole — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A casserole is a dish of meat, vegetables or beans cooked slowly in the oven in liquid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/casserole/#m1)

2) A casserole dish is the deep pot with a lid it is cooked in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/casserole/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in cooking lessons, family dinners and community kindness (bringing a casserole to a neighbour who is ill or grieving); US «hotdish» in some areas.

### examples

- Mum made a chicken casserole for tea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/casserole/#x1)
- Put the casserole in the oven for two hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/casserole/#x2)
- The neighbours brought a casserole when Gran was ill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/casserole/#x3)
- Carry the casserole dish with oven gloves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/casserole/#x4)
- The bean casserole was warm and filling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/casserole/#x5)
- We need a bigger casserole dish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/casserole/#x6)

### note

Countable. Safety: casserole dishes stay hot for a long time. In maths recipes: double the casserole = double every ingredient.

### In the corpora

- [It comes and goes like waves, and people show it in many ways, from tears to casseroles on the doorstep.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «casserole» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/casserole/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.