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DIM SUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Traditional Chinese cuisine; a variety of foods (including several kinds of steamed or fried dumplings) are served successively in small portions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("dim sum" is a kind of...):
cuisine; culinary art (the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared)
Domain region:
Cathay; China; Communist China; mainland China; People's Republic of China; PRC; Red China (a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world)