main course

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The main course is the biggest central dish of a meal. Choose a main course, the main course arrived, skip the main course.

It sits between the starter and the pudding in the British order of a meal. Americans usually say entree for the same dish, which confuses everybody, since an entree in France is a starter.

Definitions of main course

1phrasemain courseThe biggest central dish of the meal.A2
“She ordered soup and skipped the main course altogether.”
- Said"I'll skip the starter and go straight to the main course, if that's all right."
- WrittenThe main course arrived an hour late and nobody minded, because the wine kept coming.
- UsedChoose your main course when you book; the kitchen is small.
- ContrastThe main course, not the dessert. Dessert is the sweet end; the main course is the middle and the point. dessert →
- Not thisSoup is never the main course, however big the bowl. The main course fills you.
Patternfor the main course · a fish / meat main course · main course of + noun · starter, main, dessert

main course is a course.

Also accepted in games: main

Remember it

MAIN course → the MAIN plate

Not the soup before or the cake after: the main plate, the big one in the middle of the meal.

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