Bowl Meaning
/bəʊl/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
nounAs much as is held by a bowl.
Sentence Examples
We have no salad in the bowl.
There is no sugar in the bowl.
Sift the flour and salt into a bowl.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She poured the soup into a ceramic ____ and placed it on the table.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I ate a large ____ of hot chicken soup to help me feel better today.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English bolle, from Old English bolla, bolle (“bowl, cup, pot, beaker, measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bollā, from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ (“ball, round vessel, bowl”). Cognate with North Frisian bol (“bun, bread roll”), Middle Low German bolle, bole (“round object”), Dutch bol (“ball, sphere, scoop, dot”), German Bolle (“bulb”), Danish bolle (“bowl, bread roll”), Icelandic bolli (“cup”). Doublet of boule and pulla.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Fresh ingredients are more expensive than highly processed ones and the result is grain bowls galore for those who can spend $10 or more per meal, and fast food full of salt, fat and sugar for everyone else."
— 2021 October 23, Jane Black, “The Amazon of Quinoa Bowls”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
"195. Old German Pipe-Bowl ; carved wood ; design in front of bowl – the letters P K K surrounded by a wreath ; lid wanting. Switzerland."
— 1882, Edwin Atlee Barber, Catalogue of the Collection of Tobacco Pipes Deposited by Edwin A. Barber, page 11:
"Purple smoke is no joke. Especially when it is real purple. The smell, taste, and high is easily one of the best in the world. One bowl of some purple Kush, and I'm done for a couple of hours."
— 2010, Mark Arax, West of the West, page 221:
"Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, / And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven."
— c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
"On busy days, they also may be seen bowling along the Brighton main line, north of Keymer Junction, with a relief Newhaven boat express, […]."
— 1950 November, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Southern England”, in Railway Magazine, page 772:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She poured the soup into a ceramic ____ and placed it on the table.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I ate a large ____ of hot chicken soup to help me feel better today.