Ragout vs. Stew — What's the Difference?

Ragout (French ragoût; French pronunciation: ​[ʁaɡu]) is a main-dish stew.

A stew is a combination of solid food ingredients that have been cooked in liquid and served in the resultant gravy. Ingredients in a stew can include any combination of vegetables and may include meat, especially tougher meats suitable for slow-cooking, such as beef, poultry, sausages, and seafood.

A well-seasoned meat or fish stew, usually with vegetables.

To cook (food) by simmering or boiling slowly.

A mixture of diverse elements.

To undergo cooking by boiling slowly or simmering.

A stew of meat and vegetables mixed together

(Informal) To suffer with oppressive heat or stuffy confinement; swelter.

(by extension) any stew, soup, or sauce

(Informal) To be in a state of anxiety or agitation.

(transitive) To prepare (food) as a ragout.

(obsolete) A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.

A dish made of pieces of meat, stewed, and highly seasoned; as, a ragout of mutton.

A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath.

Well-seasoned stew of meat and vegetables

(archaic) A brothel.

(obsolete) A prostitute.

A dish cooked by stewing.

(Sussex) A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating.

An artificial bed of oysters.

(slang) A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.

(informal) A steward or stewardess on an airplane or boat.

To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.

(transitive) To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.

To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.

To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.

A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.

An artificial bed of oysters.

A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.

A brothel; - usually in the plural.

A prostitute.

A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.

A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew.

To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples.

To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.

Agitation resulting from active worry;

Food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables

Be in a huff; be silent or sullen

Bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings

Cook slowly and for a long time in liquid;