noun
Meaning 1
A small box or container to hold snuff or loose tobacco.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sneeze-box
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
snuffbox
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noun
Meaning 2
a small ornamental box for carrying snuff in your pocket
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: box
History
Etymology
From snuff + box.
Across languages
Translations
51 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مِسْعَط (misʕaṭ) — small box
- Arabic: مَنْشَقَة (manšaqa) — small box
- Armenian: քթախոտատուփ (kʻtʻaxotatupʻ) — small box
- Armenian: տաբակերկա (tabakerka) — small box
- Belarusian: табаке́рка (tabakjérka) — small box
- Bulgarian: табаке́ра (tabakéra) — small box
- Chinese Mandarin: 鼻煙盒 /鼻烟盒 (bíyānhé) — small box
- Chinese Mandarin: 煙盒 /烟盒 (yānhé) — small box
- Czech: tabatěrka — small box
- Danish: snusæske — small box
- Dutch: snuifdoos — small box
- Estonian: nuusktubakatoos — small box
- Finnish: nuuskarasia — small box
- French: tabatière — small box
- Friulian: tabachere — small box
- Georgian: საბურნუთე (saburnute) — small box
- German: Schnupftabakdose — small box
- German: Tabakdose — small box
- German: Tabatiere — small box
- Greek: ταμπακιέρα (tampakiéra) — small box
- Hungarian: tubákos szelence — small box
- Hungarian: burnótos szelence — small box
- Hungarian: burnótszelence — small box
- Ingrian: tabakerkka — small box
- Italian: tabacchiera — small box
- Japanese: かぎタバコ入れ (kagitabakoire) — small box
- Japanese: タバコ入れ (tabakoire) — small box
- Kashubian: tobaczéra — small box
- Korean: 코담배갑 (kodambaegap) — small box
- Macedonian: бурму́тица (burmútica) — small box
- Macedonian: табаке́ра (tabakéra) — small box
- Mongolian: хөөрөг (xöörög) — small box
- Mongolian: хөхүүр (xöxüür) — small box
- Norwegian Bokmål: snusdåse — small box
- Norwegian Nynorsk: snusdåse — small box
- Piedmontese: tabachera — small box
- Polish: tabakiera — small box
- Polish: tabakierka — small box
- Portuguese: tabaqueira — small box
- Romanian: tabacheră — small box
- Russian: табаке́рка (tabakérka) — small box
- Serbo-Croatian: табаке́ра — small box
- Serbo-Croatian: tabakéra — small box
- Silesian: sznuptabakdołza — small box
- Silesian: tabakdołza — small box
- Slovak: tabatierka — small box
- Slovene: tobačnica — small box
- Spanish: tabaquera — small box
- Swedish: snusdosa — small box
- Swedish: tabatiär — small box
- Ukrainian: табаке́рка (tabakérka) — small box