VITRINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vitrine mean? 

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

1. a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VITRINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

case; display case; showcase; vitrine

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

container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))

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

trophy case (a case in which to display trophies)