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/kəˈɹæf/ · noun
A bottle, usually glass and with a flared lip, used for serving water, wine, or other beverages..
Amongst the scattered letters and papers, there stood a claret jug, a large carafe of water, and an empty glass.
[…]I ask if he'd like something to drink besides the carafe of tap water that has materialised on the table while we've been talking.
Emma brings out the carafe of dark coffee.
Use carafe when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Carafe means A bottle, usually glass and with a flared lip, used for serving water, wine, or other beverages..
Common synonyms include decanter.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Amongst the scattered letters and papers, there stood a claret jug, a large carafe of water, and an empty glass.
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