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vase

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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  • Received-Pronunciation: /vɑːz/
  • Received-Pronunciation, obsolete: /vɔːz/
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɑːz
  • General-American: /veɪs/
  • General-American: /veɪz/
  • General-American: /vɑz/
  • General-American, obsolete: /vɔz/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australian: /vɐːz/
  • Australian: /væɪs/
  • Canada: [veːz]
  • Canada: [väːz]
  • Canada: [vaz]
  • Canada: [-s]
  • Canada: [vɒːz]
  • rhymes with -eɪs
  • CMU ARPABET: V EY1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: V AA1 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • a vase of flowers

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The body of the Corinthian capital.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: architecture

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

an exon of NCAM; it is thought to correlate with an inhibition of the neurite outgrowth-promoting properties of this protein

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

verb

Meaning 4

To place in a vase or similar container.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

an open jar of glass or porcelain used as an ornament or to hold flowers

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: jar

Narrower terms: urn

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French vase, from Latin vās. Doublet of vas.

initialism of VAriable domain Spliced Exon

Across languages

Translations

116 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Abkhaz: ваза (vaza) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Afrikaans: vaas — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Albanian: vazo — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Arabic: زَهْرِيَّة (zahriyya) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Arabic: ڤازة (vāza) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Arabic: مَزْهَرِيَّة (mazhariyya) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Armenian: վազա (vaza) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Asturian: floreru — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Asturian: xarrón — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Azerbaijani: vaza — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Azerbaijani: güldan — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Basque: lorontzi — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Belarusian: ва́за (váza) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Bengali: দানি (dani) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Bulgarian: ва́за (váza) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Burmese: ပန်းအိုး (pan:ui:) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Catalan: gerro — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Catalan: florera — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Catalan: pitxer — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Chinese Cantonese: 花瓶 (faa1 ping4) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Chinese: хуапин (huapin) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Chinese: 花瓶 (zh-min-nan) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Chinese Mandarin: 花瓶 (huāpíng) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Wu Chinese: 花瓶 (1ho-bin) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Czech: váza — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Danish: vase — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Central Dusun: pasu — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Dutch: vaas — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Esperanto: vazo — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Esperanto: matraso — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Estonian: vaas — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Faroese: vasi — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Finnish: maljakko — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • French: vase — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Friulian: vâs — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Galician: floreiro — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Galician: vaso — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Georgian: ვაზა (vaza) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Georgian: ლარნაკი (larnaḳi) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • German: Vase — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Greek: ανθοδοχείο (anthodocheío) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Greek: βάζο (vázo) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Hebrew: וָזָה — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Hebrew: ואזה (váza) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Hebrew: אֲגַרטָל (agartál) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Hindi: गुलदान (guldān) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Hungarian: váza — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Icelandic: vasi — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Ido: vazo — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Indonesian: vas — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Irish: vása — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Irish: bláthchuach — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Italian: vaso — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Japanese: 花瓶 — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Kabyle: taqbuct — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Kazakh: гүлдесте (güldeste) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Kazakh: ваза (vaza) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Khmer: ថូ (thou) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Khmer: ផើង (phaəng) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Korean: 꽃병 (kkotbyeong) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Korean: 화병 (hwabyeong) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Northern Kurdish: guldank — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Northern Kurdish: gulwaz — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Northern Kurdish: vazo — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Kyrgyz: ваза (vaza) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Lao: ໂຖດອກໄມ້ (thō dǭk mai) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Lao: ແຈກັນ (chǣ kan) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Latin: vās — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Latvian: vāze — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Limburgish: vaas — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Lithuanian: vaza — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Luxembourgish: Vas — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Macedonian: ваза (vaza) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Malay: pasu — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Māori: oko putiputi — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Māori: ipu putiputi — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Mongolian: ваар (vaar) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Nahuatl: xochicomitl — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Navajo: chʼil bee ninákáhí — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Norwegian Bokmål: vase — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Pashto: ګلدان (gwǝldān) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Iranian Persian: گُلْدان (goldân) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Plautdietsch: Wos — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Polish: wazon — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Portuguese: vaso — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Punjabi: ਗੁਲਦਾਨ (guldān) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Romanian: vază — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Russian: ва́за (váza) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Serbo-Croatian: ва́за — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Serbo-Croatian: váza — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Slovak: váza — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Slovene: vaza — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Spanish: jarrón — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Spanish: florero — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Spanish: vasija — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Spanish: canope — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Swedish: vas — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Tajik: гулдон (guldon) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Tajik: қанддон (qanddon) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Thai: แจกัน (jɛɛ-gan) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Turkish: vazo — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Ottoman Turkish: وازو (vazo) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Turkmen: waza — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Ukrainian: ва́за (váza) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Urdu: گُلْدان (guldān) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Uyghur: لوڭقا (longqa) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Uyghur: ۋازا (waza) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Uzbek: vaza — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Uzbek: koʻra — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Uzbek: guldon ko’za — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Vietnamese: lọ hoa — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Vietnamese: bình — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Vietnamese: lọ — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Welsh: fâs — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Yiddish: וואַזע (vaze) — container used mainly for displaying flowers
  • Zulu: ivazi — container used mainly for displaying flowers