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flatwares

flatwares is the plural of flatware.

Meaning of flatware

Noun

flatware (countable and uncountable, plural flatwares)

  1. (US) 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
  2. 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

Questions about flatwares

What is flatwares the plural of?
Flatwares is the plural of flatware.

Words near flatwares in the dictionary

  1. flatuosity
  2. flatuous
  3. flatus
  4. flatuses
  5. flatware
  6. flatwares
  7. flatwash
  8. flatwashed
  9. flatwashes
  10. flatwashing
  11. flatwater

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