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saucepan

name · noun · verb · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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

Pronunciation

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  • General-American: /ˈsɔsˌpæn/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsɔːs.pən/
  • British, Southern, Standard: /ˈsoːs.pən/
  • SSB Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • New-Zealand: /ˈsoːsˌpɛn/
  • New-Zealand, dated: /ˈsoːs.pɘn/
  • CMU ARPABET: S AO1 S P AE2 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A pot-shaped asterism in the constellation Orion, consisting of Orion's Belt, Orion's Sword, and the star Eta Orionis.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia

Topics: astronomy, cartography, geography, natural-sciences, uranography

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Meaning relationships

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2

noun

Meaning 2

A deep cooking vessel with a long protruding handle and sometimes a lid; used for boiling, stewing and making sauces.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle

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Meaning relationships

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Antonyms: none provided

3

verb

Meaning 3

To cook in a saucepan

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

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4

verb

Meaning 4

To hit with a saucepan

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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5

noun

Meaning 5

a deep pan with a handle; used for stewing or boiling

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: pan, cooking pan

Narrower terms: double boiler, double saucepan, stewing pan, stewpan

History

Etymology

From sauce + pan.

Across languages

Translations

115 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: sauspan — deep cooking vessel
  • Afrikaans: kastrol — deep cooking vessel
  • Albanian: tigan — deep cooking vessel
  • Albanian: tenxhere — deep cooking vessel
  • Arabic: قِدْر (qidr) — deep cooking vessel
  • Arabic: طَنْجَرَة (ṭanjara) — deep cooking vessel
  • Arabic: قِدِر (gidir) — deep cooking vessel
  • Arabic: طَنْجَرَة (ṭanjara) — deep cooking vessel
  • Armenian: կաթսա (katʻsa) — deep cooking vessel
  • Armenian: կաթսայիկ (katʻsayik) — deep cooking vessel
  • Assamese: কেৰাহী (kerahi) — deep cooking vessel
  • Asturian: cazu — deep cooking vessel
  • Azerbaijani: qazan — deep cooking vessel
  • Basque: kazola — deep cooking vessel
  • Belarusian: кастру́ля (kastrúlja) — deep cooking vessel
  • Belarusian: ро́ндаль (róndalʹ) — deep cooking vessel
  • Bengali: কড়া (koṛa) — deep cooking vessel
  • Bulgarian: касеро́ла (kaseróla) — deep cooking vessel
  • Bulgarian: те́нджера (téndžera) — deep cooking vessel
  • Carpathian Rusyn: кайстро́на (kajstróna) — deep cooking vessel
  • Catalan: cassó — deep cooking vessel
  • Chinese Mandarin: 深平底鍋 /深平底锅 (shēn píngdǐ guō) — deep cooking vessel
  • Chinese Mandarin: 燉鍋 /炖锅 (dùnguō) — deep cooking vessel
  • Chinese Mandarin: 煮鍋 /煮锅 (zhǔguō) — deep cooking vessel
  • Czech: kastrol — deep cooking vessel
  • Danish: kasserolle — deep cooking vessel
  • Dutch: steelpan — deep cooking vessel
  • Esperanto: kaserolo — deep cooking vessel
  • Esperanto: poto — deep cooking vessel
  • Estonian: kastrul — deep cooking vessel
  • Finnish: kasari — deep cooking vessel
  • French: casserole — deep cooking vessel
  • Galician: cazola — deep cooking vessel
  • Georgian: ქვაბი (kvabi) — deep cooking vessel
  • German: Topf — deep cooking vessel
  • Greek: κατσαρόλι (katsaróli) — deep cooking vessel
  • Greek: κατσαρoλάκι (katsaroláki) — deep cooking vessel
  • Haitian Creole: marmite — deep cooking vessel
  • Haitian Creole: kasrol — deep cooking vessel
  • Hebrew: אִלְפָּס (ilpas) — deep cooking vessel
  • Hindi: सॉस पैन (sŏs pain) — deep cooking vessel
  • Hungarian: lábas — deep cooking vessel
  • Hungarian: nyeles lábas — deep cooking vessel
  • Ido: kasrolo — deep cooking vessel
  • Indonesian: panci — deep cooking vessel
  • Irish: sáspan — deep cooking vessel
  • Irish: scilléad — deep cooking vessel
  • Italian: pentola — deep cooking vessel
  • Italian: casseruola — deep cooking vessel
  • Italian: tegamino — deep cooking vessel
  • Japanese: ソースパン (sōsupan) — deep cooking vessel
  • Japanese: 片手鍋 (katatenabe) — deep cooking vessel
  • Japanese: 鍋 (nabe) — deep cooking vessel
  • Kazakh: кәстрөл (käströl) — deep cooking vessel
  • Korean: 소스 냄비 (soseu naembi) — deep cooking vessel
  • Korean: 편수 냄비 (pyeonsu naembi) — deep cooking vessel
  • Korean: 양수 냄비 (yangsu naembi) — deep cooking vessel
  • Korean: 냄비 (naembi) — deep cooking vessel
  • Kyrgyz: кастрюля (kastryulya) — deep cooking vessel
  • Kyrgyz: көйрө (köyrö) — deep cooking vessel
  • Ladino: tendjere — deep cooking vessel
  • Latin: cacubus — deep cooking vessel
  • Latvian: kastrolis — deep cooking vessel
  • Lingala: nzungu — deep cooking vessel
  • Lithuanian: puodas — deep cooking vessel
  • Macedonian: тенџере (tendžere) — deep cooking vessel
  • Macedonian: лонец (lonec) — deep cooking vessel
  • Malay: periuk — deep cooking vessel
  • Maltese: kazzola — deep cooking vessel
  • Māori: hōpane — deep cooking vessel
  • Norman: sâsse-paine — deep cooking vessel
  • Norwegian: kasserolle — deep cooking vessel
  • Norwegian: gryte — deep cooking vessel
  • Persian: قابلمه (qâblmae) — deep cooking vessel
  • Polish: rondel — deep cooking vessel
  • Portuguese: panela — deep cooking vessel
  • Portuguese: caçarola — deep cooking vessel
  • Romanian: cratiță — deep cooking vessel
  • Romanian: oală — deep cooking vessel
  • Romanian: caserolă — deep cooking vessel
  • Russian: кастрю́ля (kastrjúlja) — deep cooking vessel
  • Sanskrit: चरु (caru) — deep cooking vessel
  • Scottish Gaelic: sgeileid — deep cooking vessel
  • Serbo-Croatian: šerpa — deep cooking vessel
  • Serbo-Croatian: lonac — deep cooking vessel
  • Serbo-Croatian: šerpenja — deep cooking vessel
  • Sicilian: cazzalora — deep cooking vessel
  • Slovak: rajnica — deep cooking vessel
  • Slovak: kastról — deep cooking vessel
  • Slovene: kozica — deep cooking vessel
  • Spanish: cacerola — deep cooking vessel
  • Spanish: cazo — deep cooking vessel
  • Spanish: paila — deep cooking vessel
  • Spanish: cacillo — deep cooking vessel
  • Swahili: sufuria — deep cooking vessel
  • Swedish: kastrull — deep cooking vessel
  • Sylheti: ꠇꠠꠣꠁ (xoṛai) — deep cooking vessel
  • Tagalog: kaserola — deep cooking vessel
  • Tajik: дегчаи сирдор (degča-yi sirdor) — deep cooking vessel
  • Thai: หม้อ (mɔ̂ɔ) — deep cooking vessel
  • Tok Pisin: sospen — deep cooking vessel
  • Turkish: tencere — deep cooking vessel
  • Turkish: saplı tencere — deep cooking vessel
  • Ottoman Turkish: تنجره (tencere) — deep cooking vessel
  • Turkmen: piti — deep cooking vessel
  • Ukrainian: кастру́ля (kastrúlja) — deep cooking vessel
  • Ukrainian: ро́ндель (róndelʹ) — deep cooking vessel
  • Uzbek: kostryulya — deep cooking vessel
  • Uzbek: kastryulʼ — deep cooking vessel
  • Vietnamese: cái soong — deep cooking vessel
  • Vietnamese: cái nồi — deep cooking vessel
  • Vietnamese: cái chảo — deep cooking vessel
  • Vietnamese: cái xoong — deep cooking vessel
  • Walloon: casrole — deep cooking vessel
  • Welsh: sosban — deep cooking vessel