saucer
/ˈsɔːsə/
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saucer noun: a small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips.
Noun
saucer (plural saucers)
- A small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips.
- An object round and gently curved, shaped like a saucer.
- The saucer-shaped object could have been a UFO.
- A circular sled without runners.
- A small pan or other vessel-like food container in which sauce was set on a table.
- Take two saucers , and strike the edge of the one against the bottom of the other , within a pail of water ; and you shall find , that as you put the saucers lower and lower , the sound groweth more flat1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “II. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William...
- A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.
- A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.
Verb
saucer (third-person singular simple present saucers, present participle saucering, simple past and past participle saucered)
saucer meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
saucer in Hindi
- saucer, plate; kind of thali used for cooking
- तश्तरी taśtarī
- saucer
- पिरिच piric
saucer in Tamil
- ஏந்து தட்டு, தட்டைப்பீங்கான், மூடப்பட்ட உணவு
saucer in Marathi
- small dish
- बशी baśī
saucer in Urdu
- small dish
- طشتری tashtarī, تشتری tashtarī
More languagesFewer languages
- saucer in Bengali
- পরাত porat
- saucer in Telugu
- సాసర్
- saucer in Malayalam
- തളിക taḷika
- saucer in Kannada
- ಸಣ್ಣತಟ್ಟೆ, ಬಸಿ, ಬಟ್ಟಲ ತಟ್ಟೆ
- saucer in Gujarati
- રકાબી rakābī
- saucer in Tagalog
- suik, platito
- saucer in Arabic
- صُحَيْفَة ṣuḥayfa, طَبَق فِنْجَان ṭabaq finjān
- saucer in Indonesian
- alas cangkir, piring, piringan
- saucer in Persian
- نعلبکی na'lbaki
Examples of saucer in a sentence
- Some connect the recent spate of flying saucer sightings with a rumored top-secret military aviation project.
- He initiated the game-winning play with a fancy deked saucer pass to the winger.
- People from other planets have supposedly visited Earth in flying saucers.
Forms of saucer
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | saucers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | saucers |
| present participle | saucering |
| past participle | saucered |
| past | saucered |
Origin of saucer
From Middle English saucer, from Old French saussier (and feminine saussiere; hence modern French saucier m, saucière f).
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Phrases with saucer
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Questions about saucer
- What does saucer mean?
- Saucer means a small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips.
- What is saucer in Hindi?
- Saucer in Hindi is तश्तरी (taśtarī), पिरिच (piric). See Saucer meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is saucer?
- Saucer can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce saucer?
- Saucer is pronounced /ˈsɔːsə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of saucer?
- The plural of saucer is saucers.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: saucer (page history and authors); तश्तरी (Hindi) (page history and authors); saucer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); saucer (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); തളിക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); saucer (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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