English Explanatory Dictionary

vanilla

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any tropical climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
  2. The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
  3. The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
  4. The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
  5. Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.
  6. Someone who is not into fetishism.
  7. An unmodded version of a game.
  8. A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream.
  9. A white person.
adj
  1. Of vanilla.
  2. Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
  3. Not kinky, not involving BDSM.
  4. Plain; conventional; unimaginative.

Pronunciation

/vəˈnɪl.ə/ /vəˈnɛl.ə/ en-us-vanilla.ogg

Word forms

vanilla vanillas vanille nilla more vanilla most vanilla

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wāgīnā Latin vāgīna Old Spanish vayna Spanish vaina Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin -ellus Latin -ella Old Spanish -iella Spanish -illa Spanish vainillabor. English vanilla Borrowed from Spanish vainilla, a diminutive form of vaina (“pod”). "Plain" senses derive from the perceived plainness of vanilla ice cream.

Synonyms

vanilla bean vanilla extract imitation vanilla stock vanillar normophilic

Related words

flavour extract vanillin jellybean

Derived words

banilla Cuban vanilla imitation vanilla nonvanilla plain vanilla vanilla bean vanilla essence vanilla extract vanillafy vanilla grass vanilla leaf vanillaness vanillar vanilla slice vanilla submarine vanilla wafer vanilla-y vanillery

Translations

Azerbaijani: vanil Basque: banilla Bulgarian: ванилия Catalan: vainilla Cebuano: baynilya Chinese Cantonese: 雲呢拿 /云呢拿 Chinese Cantonese: 香草 Chinese Mandarin: 香草 Czech: vanilka Danish: vanilje Esperanto: vanilo Finnish: vaniljatanko French: vanille Galician: vainilla Georgian: ვანილი German: Vanille Greek: βανίλια Hungarian: vanília Icelandic: vanilla Icelandic: vanilja Ido: vanilo Indonesian: vanili Italian: vaniglia Japanese: バニラ Kazakh: ваниль Korean: 바닐라 Northern Kurdish: vanîlya Kyrgyz: ваниль Macedonian: вани́ла Malagasy: amalo Malagasy: vanila Malay: vanila Classical Nahuatl: tlīlxōchitl Norman: vanille Norwegian Bokmål: vanilje Portuguese: baunilha Quechua: waynilla Romanian: vanilie Russian: вани́ль Serbo-Croatian: ванила Serbo-Croatian: ванилија Serbo-Croatian: vanila Serbo-Croatian: vanilija Slovene: vanilja Lower Sorbian: wanilja Spanish: vainilla
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