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stew

noun [C or U]
 
 
/stjuː/ US  /stuː/

Definition

a type of food consisting usually of meat or fish and vegetables cooked slowly in a small amount of liquid: lamb/bean/fish stew She prepared a hearty stew for dinner.Savoury dishes
(Definition of stew noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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