CHINAWARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chinaware mean? 

• CHINAWARE (noun)
  The noun CHINAWARE has 1 sense:

1. dishware made of high quality porcelain

  Familiarity information: CHINAWARE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHINAWARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dishware made of high quality porcelain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

china; chinaware

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

crockery; dishware (tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively)

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

willow-pattern; willowware (chinaware decorated with a blue Chinese design on a white background depicting a willow tree and often a river)

 Context examples 

Filling a coffee-pot and frying-pan with part of my plunder, and taking some chinaware from the cabin pantry, I left Wolf Larsen lying in the sun and went ashore.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)