bottle
A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
Example
“Beer is often sold in bottles.”
Other meanings
The contents of such a container.
“I only drank a bottle of beer.”
A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
“The baby wants a bottle.”
A kind of
- vessel
Kinds of bottle
- ketchup bottle
- ink bottle
- jug
- pill bottle
- pop bottle
- smelling bottle
- specimen bottle
- water bottle
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "butticula".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “bottle” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.