EATING UTENSIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eating utensil mean? 

• EATING UTENSIL (noun)
  The noun EATING UTENSIL has 1 sense:

1. tableware implements for cutting and eating food

  Familiarity information: EATING UTENSIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EATING UTENSIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tableware implements for cutting and eating food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cutlery; eating utensil

Hypernyms ("eating utensil" is a kind of...):

tableware (articles for use at the table (dishes and silverware and glassware))

Meronyms (parts of "eating utensil"):

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 "eating utensil"):

fork (cutlery used for serving and eating food)

spoon (a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food)

Spork (trademark for a plastic eating utensil that has both tines and a bowl like a spoon)

table knife (a knife used for eating at dining table)