bottle
pronunciation
How to pronounce bottle in British English:
UK [ˈbɒtl]
How to pronounce bottle in American English:
US [ˈbɑːtl]
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- Noun:
- glass or plastic vessel; cylindrical with a narrow neck; no handle
- the quantity contained in a bottle
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- Verb:
- store (liquids or gases) in bottles
- put into bottles
Word Origin
- bottle
- bottle: [14] Etymologically, a bottle is a small butt, or barrel. The word comes ultimately from medieval Latin butticula, a diminutive form of late Latin buttis ‘cask’ (whence English butt ‘barrel’). It reached English via Old French botele. The 20th-century British colloquial meaning ‘nerve, courage’ comes from rhyming slang bottle and glass ‘class’. In medieval Latin, a servant who handed wine round at meals and looked after the wine cellar was a buticulārius: hence, via Old French bouteillier and Anglo-Norman buteler, English butler [13].=> butler
- bottle (n.)
- mid-14c., originally of leather, from Old French boteille (12c., Modern French bouteille), from Vulgar Latin butticula, diminutive of Late Latin buttis "a cask," which is perhaps from Greek. The bottle, figurative for "liquor," is from 17c.
- bottle (v.)
- 1640s, from bottle (n.). Related: Bottled; bottling.
Example
- 1. The genie is already out of the bottle .
- 2. Perrier was no longer just a bottle of water .
- 3. The absolut bottle is now considered a contemporary design icon .
- 4. Put the required number of scoops in a bottle .
- 5. Keep a small bottle on your desk and in your purse .