caviar Definition
cavi·ar (kav′ē är′, käv′-; kav′ē är′)
noun
the salted eggs of sturgeon, salmon, etc. eaten as an appetizer
Etymology: Fr < It caviale < Turk khāvyār < Pers khāviyār < khāya, egg + -dār, bearing: orig., spawning fish, hence, roe
caviar Idioms
caviar to the general
a thing appealing only to a highly cultivated taste: Hamlet II, ii
caviar Usage Examples
Converse of object
- eat: Reading a Glyn Maxwell poem is like eating caviar; reading a Glyn Maxwell verse novel is like eating a bucket of caviar.
- include: After a dinner that included caviar and assorted game and fish they drove around the estate in search of wildlife and saw a boar.
- have: My companion had caviar with blinis & a shot of vodka, which was also delicious.
- produce: The willow is then fed to a biomass boiler used to heat fish containing sturgeon, specially bred to produce caviar.
- make: Part of the project involves fish farming to make caviar.
Adjective modifier
- aubergine: I chose red mullet with couscous and butternut bavarois, and black bream with squid, aubergine caviar and linguine.
- Russian: Unfortunately, the budget could not stretch to Russian caviar!
- vegetarian: Overheard in Waitrose: " What do you think vegetarian caviar is?
- illegal: However, governments in Western Europe have been slow to meet these requirements, making it difficult to distinguish between legal and illegal caviar.
- red: Dean fished his favorite Icelandic red caviar and cream boilies with crushed boilies and hemp in a pva bag.
- good: Today, the best caviar is obtained from the sturgeon fishes of the Caspian Sea.
Modifies a noun
- trade: The annual retail value of the global caviar trade is likely to be as high as several hundred million euros.
- sauce: The starter of prawns and scampi won points just for being served with caviar sauce.
- factory: The entire scene - huts, walkways etc - is a mock-up caviar factory supposedly on the Caspian Sea.
- sandwich: Neil buys me a caviar sandwich as a special treat and it's salty but surprisingly palatable.
- dream: My man caviar dreams use to call me " eddie propane " so I took it and ran with it.
Noun used with modifier

