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–noun

1.	a small, round, shallow dish to hold a cup.

2.	something resembling a saucer, as in shape.

[Origin: 1300–50; ME < OF saussier. See sauce, -er²

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n.

A small shallow dish having a slight circular depression in the center for holding a cup.
An object similar in shape to a saucer.

[Middle English, sauce dish, from Old French saussier, from sauce, sauce; see sauce.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
saucer

1343, from O.Fr. saucier "sauce dish," from L.L. salsarium, neut. of salsarius "of or for salted things," from L. salsus (see sauce). Meaning "small, round, shallow vessel for supporting a cup" is attested from c.1702.

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saucer
noun
1.	something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate; "the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky" [syn: disk]
2.	a small shallow dish for holding a cup at the table
3.	directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation [syn: dish]
4.	a disk used in throwing competitions [syn: discus]

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
saucer [ˈsoːsə] noun

a small shallow dish for placing under a cup
Example: Could you bring me another cup and saucer?

Arabic:	صَحْن
Chinese (Simplified):	茶碟
Chinese (Traditional):	茶碟
Czech:	talířek
Danish:	underkop
Dutch:	schotel
Estonian:	alustass
Finnish:	teevati
French:	soucoupe
German:	die Untertasse
Greek:	πιατάκι
Hungarian:	csészealj
Icelandic:	undirskál
Indonesian:	tatakan
Italian:	sottocoppa, piattino

Japanese:	受け皿
Korean:	(컵의) 받침 접시
Latvian:	apakštase
Lithuanian:	lėkštelė
Norwegian:	skål, asjett
Polish:	spodek
Portuguese (Brazil):	pires
Portuguese (Portugal):	pires
Romanian:	farfurioară
Russian:	блюдце
Slovak:	tanierik
Slovenian:	krožniček
Spanish:	platillo
Swedish:	tefat
Turkish:	fincan tabağı

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Saucer

Sauce\, n. [F., fr. OF. sausse, LL. salsa, properly, salt pickle, fr. L. salsus salted, salt, p. p. of salire to salt, fr. sal salt. See Salt, and cf. Saucer, Souse pickle, Souse to plunge.]

1. A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint sauce; sweet sauce, etc. "Poignant sauce." --Chaucer.

High sauces and rich spices fetched from the Indies. --Sir S. Baker.

2. Any garden vegetables eaten with meat. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] --Forby. Bartlett.

Roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers . . . they dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt. --Beverly.

3. Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc. [U.S.] "Stewed apple sauce." --Mrs. Lincoln (Cook Book).

4. Sauciness; impertinence. [Low.] --Haliwell.

To serve one the same sauce, to retaliate in the same kind. [Vulgar]

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