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WINEGLASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wineglass mean? 

WINEGLASS (noun)
  The noun WINEGLASS has 1 sense:

1. a glass that has a stem and in which wine is servedplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


WINEGLASS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A glass that has a stem and in which wine is served

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

drinking glass; glass (a container made of glass for holding liquids while drinking)

Meronyms (parts of "wineglass"):

shank; stem (cylinder forming a long narrow part of something)

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

champagne flute; flute; flute glass (a tall narrow wineglass)


 Context examples 


And now, on the top of this, comes the incident of the wineglasses.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What about the wineglasses?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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