Phrase guide

hot pot

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

A stew of beef or lamb and potatoes.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, uncountable, usually

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: casserole, stew

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A communal meal, popular in China, where diners share a bowl of hot broth or stock into which uncooked foods such as mushrooms, vegetables, and cuts of meat are dipped until they are cooked enough to be eaten.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: steamboat

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A jacuzzi or hot tub.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, usually

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

a stew of meat and potatoes cooked in a tightly covered pot

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: hotpot

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: stew

History

Etymology

Surface analysis hot + pot. For sense of stewed meat and potatoes, compare French pot-au-feu. For the sense of a communal meal cooked at the table, Calque of Chinese 火鍋 /火锅.

Across languages

Translations

36 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: задушено месо с картофи (zadušeno meso s kartofi) — stew of beef or lamb and potatoes
  • Chinese Mandarin: 燉肉 /炖肉 (dùnròu) — stew of beef or lamb and potatoes
  • Finnish: pata — stew of beef or lamb and potatoes
  • Finnish: pataruoka — stew of beef or lamb and potatoes
  • French: fondue avec bouillon — stew of beef or lamb and potatoes
  • German: Auflauf — stew of beef or lamb and potatoes
  • Spanish: fondue con el caldo — stew of beef or lamb and potatoes
  • Chinese Cantonese: 火鍋 /火锅 (fo2 wo1) — communal meal in China
  • Chinese Cantonese: 打邊爐 /打边炉 (daa2 bin1 lou4) — communal meal in China
  • Hakka Chinese: 火鑊 /火镬 (fó-vo̍k) — communal meal in China
  • Chinese: 火鍋 /火锅 (zh-min-nan) — communal meal in China
  • Chinese Mandarin: 火鍋 /火锅 (huǒguō) — communal meal in China
  • Chinese Mandarin: 涮鍋子 /涮锅子 (shuànguōzi) — communal meal in China
  • Finnish: hotpot — communal meal in China
  • French: fondue chinoise — communal meal in China
  • German: Feuertopf — communal meal in China
  • German: Hotpot — communal meal in China
  • German: chinesisches Fondue — communal meal in China
  • Japanese: 火鍋 — communal meal in China
  • Japanese: 鍋 (nabe) — communal meal in China
  • Japanese: ホットポット (hottopotto) — communal meal in China
  • Khmer: នាំងភ្លើង (nĕəngphləəng) — communal meal in China
  • Khmer: យ៉ៅហន (yaw hɑɑn) — communal meal in China
  • Korean: 훠궈 (hwogwo) — communal meal in China
  • Korean: 핫팟 (hatpat) — communal meal in China
  • Lao: ຫມໍ້ຮ້ອນ (mǭ hǭn) — communal meal in China
  • Lao: ຊີ້ນດາດ (sīn dāt) — communal meal in China
  • Lao: ສຸກີ້ (su kī) — communal meal in China
  • Manchu: ᡥᠠᠯᡥᡡᠨ ᠮᡠᠴᡝᠨ (halhūn mucen) — communal meal in China
  • Russian: хого́ (xogó) — communal meal in China
  • Russian: хо-го́ (xo-gó) — communal meal in China
  • Russian: хот-по́т (xot-pót) — communal meal in China
  • Spanish: olla caliente — communal meal in China
  • Thai: หม้อไฟ (mɔ̂ɔ-fai) — communal meal in China
  • Uyghur: يەل قازان (yel qazan) — communal meal in China
  • Vietnamese: lẩu — communal meal in China