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saucepan

Syllables: sauce·pan/ˈsɔːs.pən/US/ˈsɔsˌpæn/

saucepan noun: a deep cooking vessel with a long protruding handle and sometimes a lid; used for boiling, stewing and making sauces.

saucepan: a deep cooking vessel with a long protruding handle and sometimes a lid; used for boiling, stewing...
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Noun

saucepan (plural saucepans)

  1. (countable) A deep cooking vessel with a long protruding handle and sometimes a lid; used for boiling, stewing and making sauces.

Verb

saucepan (third-person singular simple present saucepans, present participle saucepanning, simple past and past participle saucepanned)

  1. To cook in a saucepan
  2. To hit with a saucepan

Proper noun capitalized: Saucepan

the Saucepan

  1. (Australia) A pot-shaped asterism in the constellation Orion, consisting of Orion's Belt, Orion's Sword, and the star Eta Orionis.
    • He also instantly recognised the slant in the line of three stars of the Saucepan which he knew spills the rain in January.2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 485

saucepan meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Malayalam

saucepan in Hindi

deep cooking vessel
सॉस पैन sŏs pain

saucepan in Marathi

सॉसपॅन

saucepan in Bengali

deep cooking vessel
কড়া koṛa

saucepan in Malayalam

ലോഹകറിച്ചട്ടി, പാചകപാത്രം
More languagesFewer languages
saucepan in Kannada
ಸಾಸ್ಪ್ಯಾನ್
saucepan in Gujarati
તપેલી napũsakliṅg
saucepan in Sanskrit
चरु caru
saucepan in Assamese
কেৰাহী kerahi
saucepan in Tagalog
kaserola
saucepan in Arabic
قِدْر qidr, طَنْجَرَة ṭanjara
saucepan in Malay
periuk
saucepan in Indonesian
panci
saucepan in Persian
قابلمه qâblmae
saucepan in Thai
หม้อ mɔ̂ɔ
saucepan in Vietnamese
cái soong, cái nồi, cái chảo, cái xoong

Examples of saucepan in a sentence

  • I dropped a saucepan, which knocked over the eggs, which went all over the kitchen floor.
  • I put some water in a saucepan and it came to a boil fairly quickly.
  • Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.

All 24 example sentences with saucepan

Forms of saucepan

Noun
pluralsaucepans
Verb
third-person singular presentsaucepans
present participlesaucepanning
past participlesaucepanned
pastsaucepanned

Plural of saucepan: saucepans

Origin of saucepan

From sauce + pan.

Words formed from saucepan

Questions about saucepan

What does saucepan mean?
Saucepan means a deep cooking vessel with a long protruding handle and sometimes a lid; used for boiling, stewing and making sauces.
What is saucepan in Hindi?
Saucepan in Hindi is सॉस पैन (sŏs pain). See Saucepan meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is saucepan?
Saucepan can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce saucepan?
Saucepan is pronounced /ˈsɔsˌpæn/ (US).
What is the plural of saucepan?
The plural of saucepan is saucepans.

Words near saucepan in the dictionary

  1. saucemaker
  2. saucemakers
  3. saucemaking
  4. sauceman
  5. saucemen
  6. saucepan
  7. saucepan fish
  8. saucepanful
  9. saucepanfuls
  10. saucepanlike
  11. saucepanned

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: saucepan (page history and authors); Saucepan (page history and authors); saucepan (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); saucepan (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); saucepan (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); તપેલી (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.

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