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GLASSFUL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does glassful mean?
• GLASSFUL (noun)
The noun GLASSFUL has 1 sense:
1. the quantity a glass will hold
Familiarity information: GLASSFUL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quantity a glass will hold
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
glass; glassful
Hypernyms ("glassful" is a kind of...):
containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)
Context examples
Mrs. Micawber said it must be very little; but we couldn't allow that, so it was a glassful.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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