flatware
flatware noun: eating utensils; cutlery, such as forks, knives and spoons.
Noun
flatware (countable and uncountable, plural flatwares)
- Eating utensils; cutlery, such as forks, knives and spoons.
- A girl without a nightgown or bathing suit. Who had never used two pieces of flatware to eat.2003, Toni Morrison, Love, Vintage (2016), page 75
- Flatware should not be allowed to dry between presoaking and washing. It should be washed with the handles down and stored with the handles up.2007, Benjamin W. Pearce, Senior Living Communities, page 118
- Plates, dishes and other relatively flat crockery.
- The artsy set can now go to a Made By You—one of those places where you pay six times more to decorate your own mugs and dishes than it would cost to buy flatware that other people have decorated2000, David Brooks, Bobos in Paradise
Forms of flatware
| plural | flatwares |
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Origin of flatware
From flat + -ware.
Questions about flatware
- What does flatware mean?
- Flatware means eating utensils; cutlery, such as forks, knives and spoons.
- What part of speech is flatware?
- Flatware is a noun.
- What is the plural of flatware?
- The plural of flatware is flatwares.
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