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vaseful

vaseful noun: as much as a vase will hold.

Noun

vaseful (plural vasefuls or vasesful)

  1. As much as a vase will hold.
    • a vaseful of red roses
    • Once or twice indeed she has asked for the shears and gone out alone as in old times returning with a load of roses, and has then demanded vases and arranged them at the pier-table in the dining-room, and carried the various vasesful to their places without any thought of weakness or difficulty.1886 June 24, Ellen Tucker Emerson, edited by Edith E. W. Gregg, The Letters of Ellen Tucker Emerson, volume two, The Kent State University Press, published 1982, →ISBN, page 566

Forms of vaseful

pluralvasefuls
pluralvasesful

Origin of vaseful

From vase + -ful.

Questions about vaseful

What does vaseful mean?
Vaseful means as much as a vase will hold.
What part of speech is vaseful?
Vaseful is a noun.
What is the plural of vaseful?
The plural of vaseful is vasefuls.

Words near vaseful in the dictionary

  1. vasectomized
  2. vasectomizes
  3. vasectomizing
  4. vasectomy
  5. vased
  6. vaseful
  7. vasefuls
  8. Vasek
  9. Vaseks
  10. vaseless
  11. vaselet

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