bottle

Speech parts

1. bottle - Noun

2. bottle - Verb

Meaning

A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.

The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.

Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.

To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.

A bundle, esp. of hay.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

feeding bottle nursing bottle nerve container jug flask pluck canteen decanter jar vial guts carafe carboy demijohn
Show all synonyms

Antonyms

cowardice gab air style table claim
Show all antonyms

Hypernyms

place set position put store lay

Hyponyms

calabash split jug flask gourd decanter

Phrases with the word

baby bottle lose one's bottle genie is out of the bottle Mariotte bottle bottle green hue bottle bomb

Derivatives

bottled bottling

Examples

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. Jonathan Swift

[On religion] I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, benzedrine or a bottle of Jack Daniel's. Frank Sinatra

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. Charles Baudelaire

Medicine left in the bottle can't help. Yoruba Proverb

A word of kindness is better than a bottle of vodka. Russian Proverb

The cork is always bigger than the mouth of the bottle. Estonian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Bottineau County Bottini bottinoite bottle and glass bottle away bottle bank