noun
Meaning 1
A bucket.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
stoup
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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UK, US: /stuːp/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -uːp
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homophone: stoop
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CMU ARPABET: S T UW1 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A mug or other drinking vessel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A receptacle for holy water, especially a basin set at the entrance of a church.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: font
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
Obsolete form of stoop.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
basin for holy water
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: stoop
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: basin
noun
Meaning 6
an archaic drinking vessel
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: drinking vessel
History
Etymology
From Old Norse staup, from Proto-Germanic *staupo- (whence Old English stēap). See stoop (“a vessel”). More at stop.
Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: kropenka — holy water font
- Hungarian: szenteltvíztartó — holy water font
- Italian: acquasantiera — holy water font
- Old Tupi: 'ykaraiburu — holy water font
- Polish: kropielnica — holy water font
- Serbo-Croatian: škropionica — holy water font
- Slovak: svätenička — holy water font
- Slovak: svätenica — holy water font
- Slovene: kropilnik — holy water font