Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A thick soup or stew of vegetables and sometimes meat.
  • noun Archaic Porridge.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dish consisting of meat boiled to softness in water, usually with vegetables; meat-broth; soup.
  • noun Oatmeal or other porridge.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A thick soup or stew.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a stew of vegetables and (sometimes) meat
  • noun thick (often creamy) soup

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English potage, from Old French, from pot, pot; see potiche.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Anglo-Norman, Old French potage, from pot + -age.

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  • Don't sell your birthright on eBay to some dude called Jacob, just for a mess of pottage.

    January 18, 2008

  • Nay.

    October 6, 2008

  • Let him be to me a spirit. A message, a thought, a sincerity, a glance from him, I want, but not news, nor pottage. I can get politics, and chat, and neighbourly conveniences from cheaper companions. Should not the society of my friend be to me poetic, pure, universal, and great as nature itself?

    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Friendship"

    June 6, 2009