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BOWLFUL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bowlful mean?
• BOWLFUL (noun)
The noun BOWLFUL has 1 sense:
1. the quantity contained in a bowl
Familiarity information: BOWLFUL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quantity contained in a bowl
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
bowl; bowlful
Hypernyms ("bowlful" is a kind of...):
containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)
Context examples
She gave me a large bowlful, of which I drank very heartily, and found myself well refreshed.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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