Colander Meaning
/ˈkɒləndə(ɹ)/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food that has been cooking in water, such as pasta.
Sentence Examples
Drain the pasta into the colander.
Let it drain in a colander.
Ziri asked Rima if he could borrow her colander.
CEFR Practice Quiz
She rinsed the spaghetti in a ____ to drain the water.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Use a metal ____ to drain the water from the cooked pasta now.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English colyndore, coloundour, colonur, variants of Middle English culdor, culdore, culatre, ultimately from Latin cōlātōrium, from Latin cōlum. Cognates include Italian colino and Spanish colador.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"An electric fire came next, followed by an umbrella and then a colander. "This bowl will carry no water," he muttered. "Some loon hath pierced it with holes.""
— 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 67:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She rinsed the spaghetti in a ____ to drain the water.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Use a metal ____ to drain the water from the cooked pasta now.