goblet

/ˈɡɒblət/

goblet noun: a drinking vessel with a foot and stem.

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Noun

goblet (plural goblets)

A drinking vessel with a foot and stem.
- sup wine from a goblet
- No one is left to swing the battle-ax skyward. No man will ever again drink from this golden goblet!1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 40
Synonyms:

chalice

goblet meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

goblet in Hindi

goblet, bowl, cup,: जाम jām
goblet, flask, small vessel: कंस kans

goblet in Tamil

கும்பா

goblet in Urdu

goblet; wine cup: جام jām

goblet in Bengali

drinking vessel with a foot and stem: সুরাই śurai

More languagesFewer languages

goblet in Malayalam: പാനപാത്രം, ചഷകം, പിടിമൊന്ത
goblet in Kannada: ಗಿಂಡಿ, ಥಾಲಿ, ಪಾನಪಾತ್ರೆ, ಚಷಕ
goblet in Gujarati: પ્યાલો pyālo
goblet in Arabic: صُوَاع ṣuwāʕ

Examples of goblet in a sentence

I rub my finger around the rim of the goblet until it hums its menacing tone.
Drink Stella in goblets like people do in its native country and, hey presto!
Giunta became most fixated on the bouquets’ vases: typically baroque handblown Venetian goblets of sap-green glass.

All 13 example sentences with goblet

Synonyms of goblet

chalice

Forms of goblet

plural	goblets

Plural of goblet: goblets

Origin of goblet

From Middle English goblet (= Middle Low German gobelet, kobelet (“goblet”)), from Old French gobellet, diminutive of gobel, from or related to the verb gober (“to ingest”).

Words formed from goblet

Phrases with goblet

Questions about goblet

What does goblet mean?: Goblet means a drinking vessel with a foot and stem.
What is goblet in Hindi?: Goblet in Hindi is जाम (jām), कंस (kans). See Goblet meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is goblet?: Goblet is a noun.
How do you pronounce goblet?: Goblet is pronounced /ˈɡɒblət/.
What is the plural of goblet?: The plural of goblet is goblets.

Words near goblet in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: goblet (page history and authors); कंस (Hindi) (page history and authors); goblet (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); جام (Urdu) (page history and authors); goblet (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); goblet (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); પ્યાલો (Gujarati) (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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