vase
/vɑːz//veɪ̯s/
vase noun: an upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers.
Noun (1)
vase (plural vases)
- An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers.
- a vase of flowers
- Tiptoeing with solemn face, with some flowers and a vase, in they walked in and then said, "Ahhh," when they saw the toys and candy and the dollhouse from Papa.1939, Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline, pages 35-36
- The body of the Corinthian capital.
Verb
vase (third-person singular simple present vases, present participle vasing, simple past and past participle vased)
- To place in a vase or similar container.
- She bought only pastel pencils and vased them in cups, great wooden bouquets in mugs on nightstands and kitchen chairs.2009, Emily Bobo, Marvin Bell, Fugue, page 21
- After she'd finished, she picked a bouquet of wildflowers and vased them in an old mason jar. That seemed a fitting centerpiece for the table.2021, Christine DePetrillo, Wolf Love, page 172
Noun (2) capitalized: VASE
VASE (plural VASEs)
- an exon of NCAM; it is thought to correlate with an inhibition of the neurite outgrowth-promoting properties of this protein
vase meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
vase in Hindi
- container used mainly for displaying flowers
- गुलदान guldān
vase in Tamil
- பூச்சாடி, குவளை, குடுவை
vase in Urdu
- container used mainly for displaying flowers
- گُلْدان guldān
vase in Bengali
- container used mainly for displaying flowers
- দানি dani
More languagesFewer languages
- vase in Telugu
- కలశము kalaśamu, చెంబు cembu
- vase in Malayalam
- പൂപ്പാത്രം, അലങ്കാരപാത്രം, പൂച്ചട്ടി
- vase in Kannada
- ಹೂದಾನಿ, ಪುಷ್ಪಕರಂಡಕ, ಹೂವಿನಕಲಶ, ಹೂವಿನಕುಂಡ
- vase in Punjabi
- ਗੁਲਦਾਨ guldān
- vase in Gujarati
- ફૂલદાની phūldānī, પુષ્પપાત્ર puṣpapātra
- vase in Odia
- ଫୁଲଦାନି
- vase in Nepali
- गमला gamlā
- vase in Pashto
- ګلدان gwǝldān
- vase in Arabic
- زَهْرِيَّة zahriyya
- vase in Malay
- pasu
- vase in Indonesian
- vas
- vase in Thai
- แจกัน jɛɛ-gan
- vase in Vietnamese
- lọ hoa, bình, lọ
- vase in Myanmar
- ပန်းအိုး pan:ui:
Examples of vase in a sentence
- [T]hey ate delicious food in a delightful dining-room that looked like a Cornish tea shoppe, with vases of flowers and fascinating wildlife pictures all over the walls.1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 110:
- I hope you know the difference between a vase (/veɪ̯s/) and a vase (/vɑz/)?2018, Alan Kooi Simpson, A Eulogy for George H. W. Bush, Washington National Cathedral:
Forms of vase
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | vases |
| plural | VASEs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | vases |
| present participle | vasing |
| past participle | vased |
| past | vased |
Origin of vase
Borrowed from Middle French vase, from Latin vās. Doublet of vas.
initialism of VAriable domain Spliced Exon
Words formed from vase
Phrases with vase
Words that rhyme with vase
Questions about vase
- What does vase mean?
- Vase means an upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers.
- What is vase in Hindi?
- Vase in Hindi is गुलदान (guldān). See Vase meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use vase in a sentence?
- [T]hey ate delicious food in a delightful dining-room that looked like a Cornish tea shoppe, with vases of flowers and fascinating wildlife pictures all over the walls.
- What part of speech is vase?
- Vase can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce vase?
- Vase is pronounced /vɑːz/ (UK).
- What is the plural of vase?
- The plural of vase is vases.
Words near vase in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: vase (page history and authors); VASE (page history and authors); vase (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); కలశము (Telugu) (page history and authors); vase (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vase (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); પુષ્પપાત્ર (Gujarati) (page history and authors); vase (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); गमला (Nepali) (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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