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drinking-cup

drinking-cup noun: a cup for drinking.

Noun

drinking-cup (plural drinking-cups)

  1. A cup for drinking
    • He took the drinking cup—funny, like a little teapot!—and held it to her white lips. She raised her hand weakly and took the drinking-cup. Then a faint shiver went through her body. The liquid in the drinking-cup spilled all over her nightgown.2015, A.J. Cronin, The Stars Look Down
    • "He smiled pleasantly as I said this, and then drew out of his coattail pocket a small tin box, which, until he opened it, I supposed contained a drinking-cup—one of those folding tin cups. […]"2015, John Kendrick Bangs, The Water Ghost and Others: Bangs Classic Collection

drinking-cup meaning in Odia

drinking-cup in Odia

drinking-cup
ପିଆଲା piālā

Examples of drinking-cup in a sentence

  • Battered, exhausted, more dead than alive, she falls through the smoke hole of the house of the Ulster chieftain Etar and into a drinking-cup.2015, Ward Rutherford, Celtic Mythology:
  • A good drinking-cup is fashioned of a parallelogram of birchbark twisted into pyramid form and fastened with a split stick.2016, Edward Breck, The Way Of The Woods:
  • If the match is deemed appropriate, the lover hands over customary gifts, which include dress for battle , an ox for sacrifice, a drinking-cup, and other unspecified expensive gifts.2016, James E. Harding, The Love of David and Jonathan:

Forms of drinking-cup

pluraldrinking-cups
alternative formdrinking cup

Origin of drinking-cup

From drinking + cup. Compare Old English drenccuppe (“drinking-cup”).

Questions about drinking-cup

What does drinking-cup mean?
Drinking-cup means a cup for drinking.
What is drinking-cup in Odia?
Drinking-cup in Odia is ପିଆଲା (piālā). See Drinking-cup meaning in Odia.
How do you use drinking-cup in a sentence?
Battered, exhausted, more dead than alive, she falls through the smoke hole of the house of the Ulster chieftain Etar and into a drinking-cup.
What part of speech is drinking-cup?
Drinking-cup is a noun.
What is the plural of drinking-cup?
The plural of drinking-cup is drinking-cups.

Words near drinking-cup in the dictionary

  1. drinking up
  2. drinking vinegar
  3. drinking water
  4. drinking waters
  5. drinking with the flies
  6. drinking-cup
  7. drinking-cups
  8. drinking-horn
  9. drinking-horns
  10. drinking-straw
  11. drinking-straws

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: drinking-cup (page history and authors); ପିଆଲା (Odia) (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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