TEACUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does teacup mean? 

• TEACUP (noun)
  The noun TEACUP has 2 senses:

1. as much as a teacup will hold

2. a cup from which tea is drunk

  Familiarity information: TEACUP used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEACUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

As much as a teacup will hold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

teacup; teacupful

Hypernyms ("teacup" is a kind of...):

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A cup from which tea is drunk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("teacup" is a kind of...):

cup (a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle)

Meronyms (parts of "teacup"):

grip; handgrip; handle; hold (the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it)

 Context examples 

Then, we had more tasks until tea, which Mr. Mell drank out of a blue teacup, and I out of a tin pot.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I was afraid it was too happy to be real, and that I should wake in Buckingham Street presently, and hear Mrs. Crupp clinking the teacups in getting breakfast ready.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My aunt, without appearing to take much heed of me, put on a coarse apron with a bib, which she took out of the press; washed up the teacups with her own hands; and, when everything was washed and set in the tray again, and the cloth folded and put on the top of the whole, rang for Janet to remove it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)