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1 one of the things from which sth is made, especially one of the foods that are used together to make a particular dish:
Coconut is a basic ingredient for many curries. * Mix all the ingredients in a bowl. * Our skin cream contains only natural ingredients. * The only active ingredient in this medicine is aspirin.
2 one of the things or qualities that are necessary to make sth successful:
the essential ingredients for success * It has all the ingredients of a good mystery story.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
Where does this definition of ingredient come from?
This entry for ingredient is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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Yes — ingredient appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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