Meaning

9 senses
  1. A 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

  2. The contents of such a container.

    I only drank a bottle of beer.

    Flasche, Buddel

    буты́лкаbutýlka

  3. A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.

    The baby wants a bottle.

  4. (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

  5. (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.

  6. (figuratively)Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.

    to drown one’s troubles in the bottle

    to hit the bottle

    Buddel

    бутылкаbutylka, рюмкаrjumka, стаканstakan

  7. (UK, dialectal)A building; house.

  8. (UK, dialectal, obsolete)A dwelling; habitation.

  9. (obsolete)A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.

Examples

1411 sentences
  1. We'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.

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  2. Give me a bottle of wine.

    Дайте мені пляшку вина.

    ruДайте мне бутылку вина.

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  3. The bottle is filled with water.

    Пляшка повна води.

    ruБутылка полна воды.

    deDie Flasche ist voll Wasser.

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  4. He filled the bottle with water.

    Він наповнив пляшку водою.

    ruОн наполнил бутылку водой.

    deEr füllte die Flasche mit Wasser.

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  5. Tom opened a bottle of wine.

    Том відкоркував пляшку вина.

    ruТом открыл бутылку вина.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
container:
Русский
By meaning 3
bundle:
container:
figuratively: alcohol:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
container:
contents of such a container:
nerve, courage:

Origin

From Middle English botel (“bottle, flask, wineskin”), from Old French boteille, from Late

From 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: bottles
Singularbottle
Pluralbottles

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
for feeding babies:feeding bottlenursing bottlebaby's bottle
Close in meaning
  • 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 antonyms
courage:cowardice

Word family

141 related words

Collocations

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

See also

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