noun
kimchi
noun
1
A traditional Korean side dish of vegetables — most often cabbage — salted, seasoned with chilli and other spices, and left to ferment.
"No Korean meal feels complete without a bowl of kimchi."
"She makes her own kimchi every autumn using her grandmother's recipe."
How to Use Kimchi
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA spicy, tangy fermented Korean vegetable dish, usually made from cabbage, eaten as a side with almost every meal.
Common pairings
kimchi stew
a jar of kimchi
fermented kimchi
Word Forms
kimchis plural
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Etymology
Borrowed from Korean gimchi, from words meaning "soaked" and "vegetable" — literally, fermented vegetables.