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# speciality

«speciality» in Mova's school dictionary: **A food or dish that a place, person or restaurant is…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a speciality, specialities)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A food or dish that a place, person or restaurant is famous for and makes very well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speciality/#m1)

2) A thing someone is especially good at or knows a lot about. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speciality/#m2)

3) A special branch of study or work, such as a doctor's speciality. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speciality/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life a café's speciality is its best dish; Cornish pasties are a speciality of Cornwall. In jokes about family, «Dad's speciality is burnt toast». In careers talk, a doctor's speciality is their area, like heart medicine.

### examples

- Fish and chips is the speciality of the seaside café. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speciality/#x1)
- Pancakes are Grandma's speciality. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speciality/#x2)
- Haggis is a Scottish speciality. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speciality/#x3)
- Her speciality is drawing horses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speciality/#x4)
- The doctor's speciality is skin problems. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speciality/#x5)
- Getting lost is my brother's speciality! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speciality/#x6)
- Pasta is a speciality of Italy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speciality/#x7)

### note

Plural «specialities». UK: speciality (5 syllables); US: «specialty» (3 syllables: SPESH-ul-tee). «Specialisation» is more about choosing to focus.

### Trees and pragmatics

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