olive oil

Oil pressed from olives, used in salad dressings, for cooking, as an ingredient in soaps, and as an emollient.

olive oil

(Cookery) a pale yellow oil pressed from ripe olive fruits and used in cooking, medicines, soaps, etc.

olive oil

factory - Originally a place where traders did their business in another country, based on Latin factorium, "an oil press" (for olive oil).
oil - From Latin oleum, from Greek elaion, "olive oil; other oily substance."
salmagundi - First a dish of chopped meat and eggs, highly seasoned and served with lemon juice and olive oil.
amurca - Sediment in olive oil.

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Noun

olive oil - oil from olives

vegetable oil, oil - any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants

olive - small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil

oleic acid - a colorless oily liquid occurring as a glyceride; it is the major fatty acid in olive oil and canola oil; used in making soap and cosmetics and ointments and lubricating oils

Translations

olive oil n → olio d'oliva

olive oil → زيت الزيتون olivový olej olivenolie Olivenöl ελαιόλαδο aceite de oliva oliiviöljy huile d’olive maslinovo ulje olio di oliva オリーブ油 올리브 기름 olijfolie olivenolje oliwa z oliwek azeite, azeite de oliva оливковое масло olivolja น้ำมันมะกอก zeytin yağı dầu ôliu 橄榄油

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Gallipoli oil
Greek salad
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madia oil
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oleic acid

Here, too, there was a store of fragrant olive oil, while casks of old, well-ripened wine, unblended and fit for a god to drink, were ranged against the wall in case Ulysses should come home again after all.

The Odyssey by Homer View in context

She cleansed all the dirt from her fair body with ambrosia, then she anointed herself with olive oil, ambrosial, very soft, and scented specially for herself--if it were so much as shaken in the bronze-floored house of Jove, the scent pervaded the universe of heaven and earth.

The Iliad by Homer View in context

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