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potteries

potteries is the plural of pottery.

Meaning of pottery

Noun

pottery (usually uncountable, plural potteries)

  1. (usually) Fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed.
    • The shelves were lined with pottery of all shapes and sizes.
  2. (countable, usually) A potter's shop or workshop, where pottery is made.
    • I visited the old potteries and saw the pots being made.
  3. (usually) The potter's craft or art: making vessels from clay.
    • Bernard Leach was skilled at pottery.

Proper noun capitalized: Potteries

the Potteries

  1. (UK) An area in the West Midlands of England, based around Stoke-on-Trent, a centre of the pottery industry.

Questions about potteries

What does potteries mean?
Potteries means an area in the West Midlands of England, based around Stoke-on-Trent, a centre of the pottery industry.
What is potteries the plural of?
Potteries is the plural of pottery.
What part of speech is potteries?
Potteries is a proper noun.

Words near potteries in the dictionary

  1. Potterhill
  2. Potterholic
  3. Potterholics
  4. Potterian
  5. Potteriana
  6. potteries
  7. pottering
  8. pottering about
  9. pottering around
  10. potteringly
  11. potterings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: potteries (page history and authors); Potteries (page history and authors); pottery (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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