GLASSFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glassful mean? 

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

1. the quantity a glass will hold

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLASSFUL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quantity a glass will hold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

glass; glassful

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

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

 Context examples 

Mrs. Micawber said it must be very little; but we couldn't allow that, so it was a glassful.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)