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demijohn

/ˈdɛmɪdʒɒn/

demijohn noun: a large bottle with a short neck, sometimes with two small handles at the neck, sometimes encased in wickerwork.

demijohn: a large bottle with a short neck, sometimes with two small handles at the neck, sometimes encased...
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Noun

demijohn (plural demijohns)

  1. A large bottle with a short neck, sometimes with two small handles at the neck, sometimes encased in wickerwork.
    • “Reckon it's first-drink time,” the old prospector cried cheerily, and unearthed Monica's two-gallon demijohn.1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter VIII, in The Understanding Heart
    • Toby, placing his gold-rimmed spectacles on his nose, set our dinner to simmer and uncorked a demijohn of the old Verfeuille red which glowed in our glasses with the embers of old recollections of half-forgotten journeys and excursions of our youth by the light of the moon.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 234
    Synonyms:
    carboy

demijohn meaning in Tamil, Tagalog and Arabic

demijohn in Tamil

குடுவைப்புட்டி

demijohn in Tagalog

bottle
damahuwana

demijohn in Arabic

bottle
دَمَجَانَة damajāna

Synonyms of demijohn

Forms of demijohn

pluraldemijohns
alternative formdemi-john

Origin of demijohn

Partial calque of French dame-jeanne (literally “Lady Jane”), of uncertain origin. Note that the French Jeanne (“Jane, feminine of John”) has changed to the masculine form John, rather than the cognate English Jane.

Questions about demijohn

What does demijohn mean?
Demijohn means a large bottle with a short neck, sometimes with two small handles at the neck, sometimes encased in wickerwork.
What is demijohn in Tamil?
Demijohn in Tamil is குடுவைப்புட்டி. See Demijohn meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is demijohn?
Demijohn is a noun.
How do you pronounce demijohn?
Demijohn is pronounced /ˈdɛmɪdʒɒn/ (UK).
What is the plural of demijohn?
The plural of demijohn is demijohns.

Words near demijohn in the dictionary

  1. demihorns
  2. demihuman
  3. demihumans
  4. demihypercube
  5. demihypercubes
  6. demijohn
  7. demijohns
  8. demilance
  9. demilancer
  10. demilancers
  11. demilances

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Adapted from Wiktionary: demijohn (page history and authors); demijohn (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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