COFFEEPOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coffeepot mean? 

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

1. tall pot in which coffee is brewed

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COFFEEPOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tall pot in which coffee is brewed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

pot (metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid)

Meronyms (parts of "coffeepot"):

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

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

drip pot (a coffeepot for making drip coffee)

percolator (a coffeepot in which boiling water ascends through a central tube and filters back down through a basket of ground coffee beans)

 Context examples 

Hannah wisely allowed them to relieve their feelings, and when the shower showed signs of clearing up, she came to the rescue, armed with a coffeepot.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

So Jo, feeling that her late lessons in cookery were to do her honor, went to preside over the coffeepot, while the children collected dry sticks, and the boys made a fire and got water from a spring near by.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)