Bottle

Quick meaning: Bottle is a noun meaning A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.

Meaning

A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.

More Meanings

1. The contents of such a container.
2. A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
3. (British, informal) (originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.
4. (attributive, of a person with a particular hair color) A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.
5. (figurative) Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
6. (transitive) To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
7. (transitive, British) To feed (an infant) baby formula.

Example Sentences

The baby wants a bottle.

Beer is often sold in bottles.

I only drank a bottle of beer.

You don’t have the bottle to do that!

Word Forms

• bottles
• bottling
• bottled

Synonyms for bottle

Depending on context, synonyms include balls, courage, nerve, pluck, bottleful.

Antonyms for bottle

Common opposites include cowardice.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cup, jar, vial, bottleneck, teapot, pot.

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