How to pronounce“preserve”in English
verbBut it's essentially a liquid that has had either added sugar or added sweetener, and often pectin to make it sort of a solid, clear, spreadable
preserve. And so preserve is sort of just the all-purpose word.
And then also, preserve is often used to refer to sort of bigger pieces of fruit in syrup that isn't quite as set as jam.
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Definitions of “preserve”
A reservation, a nature preserve.
“Suppose Shakespeare had been knocked on the head some dark night in Sir Thomas Lucy's preserves, the world would have wagged on better or worse, the pitcher gone to the well, the scythe to the corn, and the student to his book; and no one been any the wiser of the loss.”
To protect; to keep from harm or injury.
“Let's pray that we'd be preserved from danger.”
To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, such as sugar or salt; to season and prepare (fruits, meat, etc.) for storage.
“to preserve peaches or grapes”
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