What does seasoning mean?
Word: Seasoning
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Seasoning means salt, pepper, herbs or spices added to food to bring out its taste.
Synonyms: flavouring, spice
How do you spell seasoning?
Syllables: sea - son - ing
Tricky part: The first part is sea, with ea, and the middle is son, with an o. Seesoning and seasening are the slips to avoid.
Watch out for: seasening, seesoning, seasonig
Memory tip: The ea in seasoning is the ea of eat: you season the food you eat.
Seasoning in a sentence
Example 1: The soup tasted plain, so Papa added more seasoning.
Example 2: Chef Kapoor sprinkled the seasoning evenly over the roasted vegetables.
Example 3: Nani's secret seasoning for the chana is roasted cumin and a little amchur.
Fun Fact
To season food first meant to make it ripe and ready. The word came into English from old French in the 1300s and is linked to the seasons of the year, when fruit ripens.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
season
a) ing
b) ign
c) eing
d) ning
Show answer
a) ing. Nothing changes in season: plain -ing joins on, with no extra n or e.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Dadi sprinkeld a pinch of seasoning over the crispy pakoras.
a) pinch
b) crispy
c) sprinkeld
d) seasoning
Show answer
c) sprinkeld. Sprinkled ends in -led, like crumpled; seasoning in this sentence is spelt correctly.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) vinegre
b) seasoning
c) cinamon
d) turmerik
Show answer
b) seasoning. Vinegar ends in -ar, cinnamon has a double n and turmeric ends in c, which leaves seasoning.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
ninsogesa
a) seasonal
b) seasoning
c) reasoning
d) assigning
Show answer
b) seasoning. Reasoning needs an r, seasonal an l and assigning a second g; only seasoning uses all nine letters.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of these would a cook add as a seasoning?
a) milk
b) atta
c) paneer
d) hing
Show answer
d) hing
2. If Ravi forgets the seasoning, the dal will probably taste ____.
a) burnt
b) cold
c) lumpy
d) bland
Show answer
d) bland
