English

Alternative forms

• Jell-O
• jello

Noun

Jello ‎(uncountable)

1. A dessert made by boiling gelatin in water.
   • 1968, Ronald Sukenick, Up, 1998 ed., ISBN 1573660450, page 26,

     And the food! I mean, I'm not fussy, but couldn't they think of anything better than this toothpaste? A little Jello or something, a nice can of soup.

   • 1977, Florence King, WASP, Where is Thy Sting?, excerpt, in The Florence King Reader, 1996 St. Martin's Press ed., ISBN 0312143370, page 25,

     Alex Portnoy thought his mother had magical powers because she could suspend fruit in mid-Jello.

   • 1984, William Martin, Nerve Endings, Crown, ISBN 0517550881, page 28,

     "I never eat Jello. I never eat anything that moves on the spoon."

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• Jell-O
• Jello

Noun

jello ‎(usually uncountable, plural jellos)

1. A dessert made by boiling gelatin in water
   • 1940, Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, 2004 Houghton Mifflin ed., ISBN 0618526412, page 306,

     The jello was gone in five minutes and the cigarette smoked.

   • 2002, Rich Zubaty, Your Brain Is Not Your Own, ISBN 1589391306, page 159,

     Distribution of cherry jello was stepped up to college campus towns across America.

   • 2006, Xana, Harvest Moon, AuthorHouse, ISBN 142593000X, page 178,

     She didn't want to eat anything heavy and decided that jello had zero fat content.

Synonyms

• jelly