a cold dessert (= a sweet dish) made of fruit that has been cooked slowly with sugar Topics Foodc2(加糖慢火煮过后冷却的)糖渍水果,蜜饯 Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French, from Old French composte ‘mixture’, from Latin composita, compositum ‘something put together’, feminine and neuter past participle of componere.