Usually means: Addition of decorative or flavorful elements.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word garnish:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. garnish: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. garnish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. garnish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. garnish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. garnish: Vocabulary.com
  6. Garnish, garnish: Wordnik
  7. garnish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. garnish: Wiktionary
  9. garnish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. garnish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. garnish: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Garnish, garnish: Dictionary.com
  13. garnish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. garnish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Garnish (food), Garnish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Garnish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. garnish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. garnish: Rhymezone
  19. garnish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. garnish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Garnish: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. garnish: Free Dictionary
  23. garnish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Garnish: The Word Detective
  25. garnish: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. garnish: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. garnish: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. garnish: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. GARNISH: Accounting Glossary
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bernstein's Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. Garnish (debt), Garnish (disambiguation), garnish: Legal dictionary
  9. Garnish (debt), garnish: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Garnish (debt), garnish: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. garnish: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Garnish: Easton Bible

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. garnish, garnish: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Garnish, The garnish: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See garnished as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.
verb:  (cooking) To ornament with something placed around it.
verb:  (archaic) To furnish; to supply.
verb:  (slang, archaic) To fit with fetters; to fetter.
verb:  (law) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.
verb:  (law) To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee.
noun:  A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
noun:  Pewter vessels in general.
noun:  Something added for embellishment.
noun:  Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.
noun:  (cooking) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
noun:  (slang, obsolete) Fetters.
noun:  (slang, historical) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
noun:  (US, slang) Cash.
noun:  A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

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