bowl
/boʊl/ noun A1- As much as is held by a bowl. · You can’t have any more soup – you’ve had three bowls already.
- A dish comprising a mix of different foods served in a bowl, usually named after the base ingredient at the bottom or after a different dish that it simulates. · This restaurant offers a number of different bowls.· açai bowl, rice bowl, sushi bowl
- The non-mesh outer-container part of a salad spinner.
- The round container surface of a mortar (hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle).
- A water bowl, such as for a pet.
- One of the seven bowls of water used as ceremonial offerings in Buddhist practice.
- One of the seven bowls representing plagues described in Revelations in Christian theology.
- The round hollow part of anything; anything shaped like a bowl. · Dig out a bowl in the ground.
Plural bowls
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Lawrence Gulf seemed to rim in the splendor like a huge bowl of pearl and sapphire brimmed with wine and fire.
It was opened by the farmer’s wife, and when Dorothy asked for something to eat the woman gave them all a good dinner, with three kinds of cake and four kinds of cookies, and a bowl of milk for Toto.
I eat two bowls.
We ate hot soup in bread bowls.
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