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pot

  • noun
  • pŏt

A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).

Other meanings

  1. The nominal household cooking vessel, metaphorically standing for the supply of food for a meal, or for the home.

  2. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly

A kind of

  • vessel

Kinds of pot

  • cauldron
  • boiler
  • urn

Example sentences

  • “I smoke pot every once in a while.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

  • “Sometimes I feel the need to stir the pot, you know.”

    Tatoeba · deniko · CC0

Word history

From Old French "pot".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “pot” 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.