DRINKING VESSEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drinking vessel mean? 

• DRINKING VESSEL (noun)
  The noun DRINKING VESSEL has 1 sense:

1. a vessel intended for drinking

  Familiarity information: DRINKING VESSEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRINKING VESSEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vessel intended for drinking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("drinking vessel" is a kind of...):

vessel (an object used as a container (especially for liquids))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "drinking vessel"):

loving cup (a large drinking vessel (usually with two handles) that people drink out of in turn at a banquet)

mug (with handle and usually cylindrical)

stoup (an archaic drinking vessel)

tankard (large drinking vessel with one handle)

 Context examples 

A glass container for holding liquids while drinking, or any other similar drinking vessel.

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