appetizer

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course)

From appetize + -er.

It was merely an appetizer. — The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills, John Trotwood Moore
=ap er tif´= (teef): an appetizer. — The Literary World Seventh Reader, Unknown
“All these pigeons are only appetizers, snacks. — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World, Jules Verne

appetiser, starter

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