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GRAYV-ee/ˈɡreɪvi/

Gravy is a brown sauce made from meat juices, often poured on roast meat, potatoes, and Yorkshire pudding — British meals. Usually uncountable: some gravy, a jug of gravy. Sauce can be many colours; gravy is this brown meat sauce. Not grave (a place in a cemetery) — different vowel.

Meaning

A brown sauce made from meat juices, often with roast dinner (British).

Examples

• “Would you like gravy on your potatoes?”
• “There is no gravy left.”
• “He put too much gravy on his plate.”

Good to know

uncountable: gravy. British roast dinner. Contrast: ketchup, mayonnaise. Mix-up: grave.

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