Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - relish

(relishes, relishing, relished) 1. If you relish something, you get a lot of enjoyment from it. I relish the challenge of doing jobs that others turn down... VERB: V n • Relish is also a noun. The three men ate with relish. N-UNCOUNT 2. If you relish the idea, thought, or prospect of something, you are looking forward to it very much. Jacqueline is not relishing the prospect of another spell in prison... = look forward to VERB: V n 3. Relish is a sauce or pickle that you eat with other food in order to give the other food more flavour. N-MASS