cutlery
Eating or serving utensils such as knives, forks, and spoons.
Example
“a cutlery set”
Other meanings
The business of a cutler.
Sharp cutting utensils.
“Proper maintenance of your cutlery will keep the blades from dulling.”
Synonyms
- cutter
- cutting tool
A kind of
- cutting implement
Kinds of cutlery
- bolt cutter
- cigar cutter
- edge tool
- glass cutter
- tile cutter
Related words
- cutleryware
Word history
From Old French "coutelerie".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “cutlery” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; 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.