HOW TO PRONOUNCE
chili
/ˈt͡ʃɪli/
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What does chili mean?
noun
- The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking.
- Powdered chili pepper, used as a spice or flavouring in cooking.
- A spicy stew of chicken or paneer, capsicum and onion, eaten as an appetizer.
More meanings (4)
noun
- A dish made with chili peppers and other ingredients, such as beans and beef.
- Cincinnati chili.
proper noun
- A town in New York, United States.
- (historical, obsolete) Alternative form of Chile.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈt͡ʃɪli/
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See this word in context.
Our General seeing this, stayed there no longer, but weighed anchor, and set sail towards the coast of Chili.
“I have been in Chili, sir,” said he in the same tongue, “and in California, and in those places I learned Spanish.”
More book examples (3)
This twentieth part seems to be the whole rent which is paid by the greater part of the gold mines of Chili and Peru.
Foreign gardeners eventually learned, however, that seeds of the Chili and Virginia strawberry produced new varieties which were often much better than their parents.
He had sold the Ayacucho in Chili for a vessel of war, and had given up the sea, and had been for years a ranchero.