bottle
A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used…A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
» We'd like another bottle of wine.
Wir möchten noch eine Flasche Wein.
Мы хотели бы еще бутылку вина.
Принесіть нам ще одну пляшку вина, будь ласка.
Meaning
9 sensesA container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
Beer is often sold in bottles.
Flasche, Bouteille, Butëlle
буты́лкаbutýlka, фля́жкаfljážka
пля́шкаpljáška, буте́лькаbutélʹka
a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped
The contents of such a container.
I only drank a bottle of beer.
Flasche, Buddel
буты́лкаbutýlka
A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
The baby wants a bottle.
(UK, informal)(originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.
You don’t have the bottle to do that!
He was going to ask her out, but he lost his bottle when he saw her.
Mumm, Traute, Schneid
(attributive)A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.
Did you know he’s a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde.
(figuratively)Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
to drown one’s troubles in the bottle
to hit the bottle
Buddel
бутылкаbutylka, рюмкаrjumka, стаканstakan
(UK, dialectal)A building; house.
(UK, dialectal, obsolete)A dwelling; habitation.
(obsolete)A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.
Examples
1411 sentencesWe'd like another bottle of wine.
Принесіть нам ще одну пляшку вина, будь ласка.
ruМы хотели бы еще бутылку вина.
deWir möchten noch eine Flasche Wein.
Give me a bottle of wine.
Дайте мені пляшку вина.
ruДайте мне бутылку вина.
The bottle is filled with water.
Пляшка повна води.
ruБутылка полна воды.
deDie Flasche ist voll Wasser.
He filled the bottle with water.
Він наповнив пляшку водою.
ruОн наполнил бутылку водой.
deEr füllte die Flasche mit Wasser.
Tom opened a bottle of wine.
Том відкоркував пляшку вина.
ruТом открыл бутылку вина.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English botel (“bottle, flask, wineskin”), from Old French boteille, from LateFrom Middle English botel (“bottle, flask, wineskin”), from Old French boteille, from Late Latin butticula, diminutive of buttis (“cask”). Doublet of botija.
From Middle English bottle, botel, buttle, from Old English botl (“building, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōþl, from Proto-Germanic *budlą, *buþlą, *bōþlą (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (literally “to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”).
From Middle English botel (“bundle (of hay)”), from Old French botel, ultimately related to modern French botte (“bundle”).
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Forms
plural: bottlesSynonyms
9 synonyms- a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children:feeding bottlenursing bottle
- the quantity contained in a bottle:bottleful
Antonyms
1 antonymsWord family
141 related wordsCollocations
12 patterns- bottle of wine
- a bottle of
- bottle of beer
- three bottles of
- bottle opener
- a bottle opener
- opened the bottle
- bought three bottles
- whole bottle of
- bottle of red
- bottle with water
- opening a bottle