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

  • noun A dish consisting of rice cooked in stock with other ingredients, such as mushrooms and Parmesan cheese.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An Italian dish of rice and cheese.

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

  • noun A kind of pottage.

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  • noun countable An Italian savoury dish made with rice and other ingredients.
  • noun uncountable Risotto considered as food.

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

  • noun rice cooked with broth and sprinkled with grated cheese

Etymologies

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

[Italian, from riso, rice, from Old Italian; see rice.]

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Italian

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