ingredient

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a component of a mixture or compound
  2. noun an abstract part of something
  3. noun food that is a component of a mixture in cooking

Etymology

From Middle French ingredient, from Latin ingrediens, present participle of ingredior (“to go or enter into or onto”).

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