Enchilada Definition

ĕnchə-lädə
enchiladas
noun
A tortilla usually rolled with meat inside and served with a chili-flavored sauce.
Webster's New World
idiom
whole enchilada
  • The entirety of something; everything.
American Heritage
the whole enchilada
  • all of it; everything; the entirety of something
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Enchilada

Noun

Singular:
enchilada
Plural:
enchiladas

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Enchilada

Origin of Enchilada

  • American Spanish en- in (from Latin in- en–1) chile chili pepper chili -ada feminine adj. suff.

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Spanish enchilada, past participle of enchilar (“to add chili pepper to”)

    From Wiktionary

Enchilada Sentence Examples

  • It takes hours to download the whole enchilada using an analog connection.

  • Enchiladas are delicious and, when they are topped with a quick enchilada sauce, they make a great lunch, dinner, or late night snack.

  • After we figured out the enchilada recipe for the low fat cheese enchiladas, Chefette and I started to work out the sauce recipe to go with it.

  • Instead of thinking of the enchilada as the primary flavor, I worked off the theory that the enchilada was the finishing flavor and the sauce would be the primary flavor.

  • Allowing the sauce its own space to be its own taste and putting the enchilada in a supporting or finishing role drastically altered the way I approached this sauce.

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Words Starting With

EENENC

Words Ending With

ADAADA

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Words Starting With E and Ending With A

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9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With E9 Letter Words Ending With A