- a hot dish of eggs mixed together and fried, often with cheese, meat, vegetables, etc. added
- a cheese and mushroom omelette
Oxford Collocations DictionaryOmelette is used after these nouns:- cheese
- mushroom
Word OriginFrench, earlier amelette (alteration of alumette), variant of alumelle, from lemele ‘knife blade’, from Latin lamella, diminutive of lamina ‘thin plate’. The association with ‘knife blade’ is probably because of the thin flat shape of an omelette.
Idioms
you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs
- (saying) you cannot achieve something important without causing a few small problemsTopics Successc2
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