sauce (sôs)n.1. A flavorful liquid or semisolid condiment or mixture of ingredients served as a topping or other accompaniment to food.2. Stewed fruit, usually served with other foods.3. Something that adds zest, flavor, or piquancy.4. Informal Impudent speech or behavior; impertinence or sauciness.5. Slang Alcoholic liquor.tr.v. sauced, sauc·ing, sauc·es 1. To season or flavor with sauce.2. To add piquancy or zest to.3. Informal To be impertinent or impudent to.[Middle English, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, from Latin, feminine of salsus, past participle of sallere, to salt; see sal- in Indo-European roots.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.sauce (s??s) n1. (Cookery) any liquid or semiliquid preparation eaten with food to enhance its flavour2. (Cookery) anything that adds piquancy3. (Cookery) US and Canadian stewed fruit4. (Cookery) dialect US vegetables eaten with meat5. informal impudent language or behaviourvb (tr) 6. (Cookery) to prepare (food) with sauce7. to add zest to8. to make agreeable or less severe9. informal to be saucy to[C14: via Old French from Latin salsus salted, from sal?re to sprinkle with salt, from sal salt] ?sauceless adjCollins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014sauce (s?s) n., v. sauced, sauc?ing. n. 1. any liquid or semiliquid preparation, as gravy or a condiment, eaten as an accompaniment to food. 2. stewed fruit, usu. puréed: cranberry sauce. 3. something that adds piquance or zest. 4. Informal. impertinence; sauciness. 5. Slang. hard liquor (usu. prec. by the). v.t. 6. to dress with a sauce. [1300?50;