PLATEFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plateful mean? 

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

1. the quantity contained in a plate

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLATEFUL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quantity contained in a plate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

plate; plateful

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

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

 Context examples 

Of this preparation a tolerably abundant plateful was apportioned to each pupil.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

If I had permitted him, I am satisfied that Traddles would have made a perfect savage of himself, and eaten a plateful of raw meat, to express enjoyment of the repast; but I would hear of no such immolation on the altar of friendship, and we had a course of bacon instead; there happening, by good fortune, to be cold bacon in the larder.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She led the way into a cosy room—the same which we had caught a glimpse of when last we came—and there, in the middle, was a table with white napery, and shining glass, and gleaming china, and red-cheeked apples piled upon a centre-dish, and a great plateful of smoking muffins which the cross-faced maid had just carried in.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)