FRYING PAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does frying pan mean? 

• FRYING PAN (noun)
  The noun FRYING PAN has 1 sense:

1. a pan used for frying foods

  Familiarity information: FRYING PAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRYING PAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pan used for frying foods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

frying pan; frypan; skillet

Hypernyms ("frying pan" is a kind of...):

cooking pan; pan (cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel)

Meronyms (parts of "frying pan"):

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 "frying pan"):

electric frying pan (a frying pan heated by electricity)

spider (a skillet made of cast iron)