olive oil

American  

noun

1. an oil expressed from the olive fruit, used in cooking, in salad dressings, in medicine, etc.

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olive oil British  

noun

1. a pale yellow oil pressed from ripe olive fruits and used in cooking, medicines, soaps, etc

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Etymology

Origin of olive oil

First recorded in 1765–75

Example Sentences

You learn where splurging matters to you — good olive oil and great bread, perhaps — and where frugality feels easy rather than punitive.

From Salon

Another pasta, this time a chicken spaghetti smells like Sunday afternoons in the South: sweet onions softening in olive oil, bell peppers and celery faintly caramelizing, mushrooms releasing their earthy perfume.

From Salon

For example, the drop in the price of olive oil is primarily the result of a recovery in harvests after some particularly bad years of heatwaves and drought in Greece and Turkey.

From BBC

The beauty is that the formula stays simple — salt, pepper, a glug of olive oil — but this is also where you get to steer the salad’s personality.

From Salon

While that marinates, the roux is prepared, which calls for a generous amount of olive oil.

From Salon