Definitions for olios

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olios o·li·o

Spelling: [oh-lee-oh]

IPA: /ˈoʊ liˌoʊ/

Olios is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in olios (iloos).

Definitions for olios

noun

1. a dish of many ingredients.
2. Informal. olla podrida (def 2).
3. a mixture of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge.
4. a medley or potpourri, as of musical or literary selections; miscellany.
5. Theater. a specialty act performed downstage while the upstage set is changed. a performance, as a musical number, presented between scenes or acts. drop scene (def 1). a program of variety acts, especially the second half of a minstrel show.

Origin of olios

1635-45; Spanish olla pot, stew Latin olla, ōla pot, jar

Examples for olios

The result was olio Lusso, a blend of eleven essential oils derived from flowers and botanicals.

Think of paying three or four francs for less than half a pound sott 'olio in Paris.

That'll be all for the olio; I'll go right into the after-show now.

If you could do anything at all, Hannah, you'd lead a chorus and go in the olio.

But I have such an olio of affairs, really I know not what to do.

I must have an olio pot,' she said, 'an olio pot, and the heaviest one.

Though I do not doubt but they are an olio of lies and scandal, I should like to see them.

An age, or a country; or an olio of all ages and all countries?'

Some other recommendations are Las Brisas from Jorge Ordoñez, Yellingbo Gold unfiltered, Rainieri, olio Verde, and Trampetti.

I might indeed, following the example of the Sunday newsmonger, call it the olio.