pots
UK/pɒts/US/pɑts/
pots is the plural of pot.
pots is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pot.
Meaning of pot
Noun
pot (plural pots)
- A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
- Synonyms:
- cookpot, cooking pot
- The nominal household cooking vessel, metaphorically standing for the supply of food for a meal, or for the home.
- Hunting in the year 1000 was still a democratic pastime. Every free-born Anglo-Saxon had the right to enter the forest and bring home game for the pot.1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 143
- A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
- A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffee pot or teapot.
- A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
- He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- A vessel used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot; (figuratively, slang) a toilet; the lavatory.
- Shit or get off the pot.
- Synonyms:
- can, chamber pot, potty, shitpot, chamber, chemical toilet, commode, Cousin John, crapper, gazunder
Noun (1)
pots pl (plural only)
Noun (2) capitalized: POTS
POTS (uncountable)
- Acronym of publicly offered telephone service/system: the public telephone network
- Synonyms:
- publicly offered telephone service, publicly offered telephone system, PSTN, public switched telephone network
- Acronym of plain old telephone service/system: the old analog landline circuit-switched telephone network
- Synonyms:
- plain old telephone service, plain old telephone system
- Initialism of post/postal office telephone service/system
- Synonyms:
- post office telephone service, post office telephone system, postal office telephone service, postal office telephone system
- Abbreviation of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome
- Synonyms:
- postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome
Synonyms of pots
- publicly offered telephone service
- publicly offered telephone system
- PSTN
- public switched telephone network
- plain old telephone service
- plain old telephone system
- post office telephone service
- post office telephone system
- postal office telephone service
- postal office telephone system
1 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome
Phrases with pots
- pots on
- pots up
- dry pots
- hot pots
- ink pots
- jam pots
- log pots
- mud pots
- one pots
- pan pots
- pee pots
- pots out
49 more phrasesFewer phrases
- tea pots
- try pots
- bean pots
- cook pots
- main pots
- moka pots
- neti pots
- peat pots
- pint pots
- piss pots
- pity pots
- side pots
- bedja pots
- bough pots
- crock pots
- honey pots
- paint pots
- pinch pots
- plant pots
- press pots
- sandy pots
- split pots
- steel pots
- stock pots
- tatie pots
- coffee pots
- flower pots
- grease pots
- monkey pots
- pepper pots
- pots o' one
- smudge pots
- chamber pots
- chimney pots
- cooking pots
- lobster pots
- melting pots
- pelican pots
- pots of gold
- thunder pots
- kedgeree pots
- porridge pots
- pots of money
- watering pots
- Indian paint pots
- Karelian hot pots
- lobster-tail pots
- lobster-tailed pots
- talk the legs off a pots
Words that rhyme with pots
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Questions about pots
- What does pots mean?
- Pots means a large quantity.
- What is pots the plural of?
- Pots is the plural of pot.
- What part of speech is pots?
- Pots is a noun.
- How do you pronounce pots?
- Pots is pronounced /pɑts/ (US).
Words near pots in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pots (page history and authors); POTS (page history and authors); pot (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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