Explore Adobo through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like dish. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Adobo meaning
- A Philippine dish in which pork or chicken is slowly cooked in a sauce including soy sauce, vinegar, and crushed garlic.
- A marinade.
Synonyms of Adobo
Using Adobo
- The main meaning on this page is: A Philippine dish in which pork or chicken is slowly cooked in a sauce including soy sauce, vinegar, and crushed garlic. | A marinade.
- Useful related words include: dish.
- In the example corpus, adobo often appears in combinations such as: adobo and, the adobo.
Context around Adobo
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 6 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Adobo
- In this selection, "adobo" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, belly, sinigang, kine, letting, vegetable and contest stand out and add context to how "adobo" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a for adobo is truly and any kine adobo contest sponsored. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "adobo" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with adobo
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Pork dishes include cochito, which is pork in an adobo sauce. (11 words)
The authors love dipping bits of their adobo into the kare-kare. (12 words)
A for Adobo is truly an alphabetical, gastronomical journey to Filipino food. (12 words)
Elna Kolarich, who also owns the Filipino/Asian comfort-food pop-up Sarap Atlanta, is behind this steamed-bun business, which offers Filipino-style buns—called siopao—in flavors like ube pork belly adobo and chicken asado. (37 words)
Other contests include the Any Kine Adobo Contest sponsored by Tante’s Island Cuisine; the Speedy Balut Eating Contest sponsored by Esteban Construction, LLC; and The Polvoron Challenge: Eat&Tweet sponsored by Friends of Yuki Lei Sugimura. (37 words)
Meals available to order from the foodQ website include an Italian cheese pasta, pork marinated in adobo, vegetable chow mein, and a turkey chorizo burger. (25 words)
Example sentences (10)
Elna Kolarich, who also owns the Filipino/Asian comfort-food pop-up Sarap Atlanta, is behind this steamed-bun business, which offers Filipino-style buns—called siopao—in flavors like ube pork belly adobo and chicken asado.
I’d order the adobo again and recommend it to anybody heading out to the festival.
Trent likes eating Filipino food like sinigang, adobo and kaldereta and he follows the Los Angeles Rams.
The authors love dipping bits of their adobo into the kare-kare.
They then rub the animals’ spine, shoulder, head, legs, muscles, and ribs in the adobo, letting them absorb the flavors for three hours.
A for Adobo is truly an alphabetical, gastronomical journey to Filipino food.
Meals available to order from the foodQ website include an Italian cheese pasta, pork marinated in adobo, vegetable chow mein, and a turkey chorizo burger.
Other contests include the Any Kine Adobo Contest sponsored by Tante’s Island Cuisine; the Speedy Balut Eating Contest sponsored by Esteban Construction, LLC; and The Polvoron Challenge: Eat&Tweet sponsored by Friends of Yuki Lei Sugimura.
The menu is an introduction to Filipino food that goes beyond lumpia and adobo, although, both dishes are also offered.
Pork dishes include cochito, which is pork in an adobo sauce.
Common combinations with adobo
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: