pot

CEFRA2

/pɒt/

noun

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  1. 01

    noun

    A deep container used for cooking, storing, or growing plants.

  2. 02

    noun

    A plant or drug made from cannabis.

Examples

  • There cannot be any tea left in the pot.

  • Bob filled the pot with water.

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Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

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noun

Extra meanings

  1. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly, A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.

  2. A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).

  3. The nominal household cooking vessel, metaphorically standing for the supply of food for a meal, or for the home.

More examples

In context

  • Money will make the pot boil.

  • After his arrest, his prospects went to pot.

  • Shit or get off the pot.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English pot, potte, from Old English pott (“pot”) and Old French pot (“pot”) (probably from Frankish *pott); both Old English and Frankish from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budnós (“a type of vessel”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pot (“pot”), Dutch pot (“pot”), German Low German Pott (“pot”), German Pott (“pot”), Swedish potta (“chamber pot”), Icelandic pottur (“tub, pot”), Old Armenian պոյտն (poytn, “pot, earthen pot”). Also, Old Norse pottr (“pot, tub, basin”). The sense of ruin or deterioration was originally a general allusion to "being chopped up and tossed in a (normally fiery) pot, like a piece of meat" (i.e. to get wasted or done with (by...