Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A large bottle with a short neck, sometimes with two small handles at the neck, sometimes encased in wickerwork.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: carboy
Antonyms: none provided
noun
large bottle with a short narrow neck; often has small handles at neck and is enclosed in wickerwork
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bottle
History
Partial calque of French dame-jeanne (literally “Lady Jane”), of uncertain origin. Note that the French Jeanne (“Jane, feminine of John”) has changed to the masculine form John, rather than the cognate English Jane.
Across languages
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
