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SALTCELLAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does saltcellar mean?
• SALTCELLAR (noun)
The noun SALTCELLAR has 1 sense:
1. a small container for holding salt at the dining table
Familiarity information: SALTCELLAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small container for holding salt at the dining table
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("saltcellar" 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))
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