Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

water glass

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.77 in modern English

Syllables: wa-ter -glass
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A drinking vessel intended or used for water.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Any of various water-soluble silicate compounds, especially when occurring in dissolved, jelly-like form.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A water gauge for a steam boiler.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

An instrument consisting of an open box or tube with a glass bottom, used for examining objects in the water, as upon the sea bottom in shallow places.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"She asked the server to refill her water glass."
"No; what I felt was a sort of glazed numbness, as if I were suspended in some thin, transparent stuff, like one of the eggs my mother used to preserve in waterglass when I was a child."

Usage

Inflected Forms

water glasses (plural)

Derived Forms

waterglassful

Synonyms

liquid glass sodium silicate soluble glass water clock clepsydra water gauge water gage

Questions

What does water glass mean?: A drinking vessel intended or used for water.

How to pronounce water glass

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