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Synonyms for bottle

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Balls — (originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage

balls, courage, guts, pluck, nerve

2. For feeding babies

feeding bottle, baby bottle, nursing bottle US

3. Flask

flask, decanter, jar, vial, carafe, cruse, cruet, flagon dated, phial dated

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    (originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.

    You don’t have the bottle to do that!

  2. n. 2

    A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.

    Beer is often sold in bottles.

  3. n. 3

    The contents of such a container.

    I only drank a bottle of beer.

Forms

Plural
bottles → courages, plucks, nerves, flasks…

Example sentences

  • balls Dung balls are the biggest source of dung beetles.
  • flask Tom took a drink and then handed his flask to Mary.
  • carboy They smashed the carboy and poured out the juice.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
bottlerising
ballsrising
flaskfalling
carboyfalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
jar1
4 letters
guts1, vial2
5 letters
balls1, nerve1, flask1, pluck1, cruse1, phial, cruet
6 letters
magnum2, carafe2, flagon, carboy2
7 letters
courage2, canteen2
8 letters
decanter
9 letters
bottleful

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (vial2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
bouteille
Italiano
bottiglia
Español
botella