dessert

n. final course which is served after the main meal (pudding, pie, etc.)

Dessert is a course that typically comes at the end of a meal, usually consisting of sweet food but sometimes of a strongly-flavored one, such as some cheeses. The word comes from the Old French desservir, "to clear the table." Common desserts include cakes, cookies, fruits, pastries and candies. The word dessert is most commonly used for this course in U.S., Canada, Australia, and Ireland, while sweet, pudding or afters would be more typical terms in the UK and some other Commonwealth countries, including India. According to Debrett's, pudding is the proper term, dessert is only to be used if the course consists of fruit, and sweet is colloquial. This, of course, reflects the upper-class/upper-middle-class usage. More commonly, the words simply form a class shibboleth; pudding being the upper-class and upper-middle-class word to use for sweet food served after the main course, sweet, afters and dessert being considered non-U. However, dessert is considered slightly better than the other two, owing to many young people, whose parents say pudding, acquiring the word from American media.
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Noun
1. a dish served as the last course of a meal
(synonym) sweet, afters
(hypernym) course
(hyponym) ambrosia

n. dessert, final course which is served after the main meal

n. dessert, sweet, final course which is served after the main meal (pudding, pie, etc.)

v. serve; harm; put at a disadvantage; clear the table