vase

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See also: Vase, vaše, VASE, and ваше

English

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A Chinese vase.

Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle French vase, from Latin vās. Doublet of vas.

Pronunciation

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Usage notes

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There is some tendency in American English to use the pronunciation /vɑz/ for more expensive and/or elegant items, and /veɪs/ for more everyday ones.

Noun

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vase (plural vases)

  1. An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers.
    a vase of flowers
  2. (architecture) The body of the Corinthian capital.

Derived terms

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Translations

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Verb

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vase (third-person singular simple present vases, present participle vasing, simple past and past participle vased)

  1. (transitive) To place in a vase or similar container.
    • 2009, Emily Bobo, Marvin Bell, Fugue, page 21:
      She bought only pastel pencils and vased them in cups, great wooden bouquets in mugs on nightstands and kitchen chairs.
    • 2021, Christine DePetrillo, Wolf Love, page 172:
      After she'd finished, she picked a bouquet of wildflowers and vased them in an old mason jar. That seemed a fitting centerpiece for the table.

References

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  1. ^ Krapp, George Philip (1925) The English Language in America[1], volume II, New York: Century Co. for the Modern Language Association of America, →OCLC, page 49.

Anagrams

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Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French vase, from Latin vās (vessel).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /vaːsə/, [ˈvæːsə]

Noun

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vase c (singular definite vasen, plural indefinite vaser)

  1. vase

Declension

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References

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French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /vaz/ ~ /vɑz/
  • Audio; un vase:(file)

Etymology 1

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From Middle French, from Middle Dutch wase (mud, silt, wet ground, clod of dirt, grass), from *Old Dutch waso, from Proto-Germanic *wasô (moisture, ground), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (moist, wet). More at ouze.

Noun

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vase f (plural vases)

  1. silt, mud
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin vās.

Noun

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vase m (plural vases)

  1. vase
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Danish: vase
  • German: Vase (see there for further descendants)
  • Hungarian: váza
  • Hunsrik: Vaas
  • Luxembourgish: Vas
  • Norwegian: vase
  • Romanian: vază
  • Russian: ваза (vaza) (see there for further descendants)
  • Swedish: vas

Further reading

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Latin

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Noun

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vāse

  1. ablative singular of vās

Norman

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Etymology

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From Latin vās (vessel).

Noun

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vase m (plural vases)

  1. (Jersey) vase

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.

Noun

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vase m (definite singular vasen, indefinite plural vaser, definite plural vasene)

  1. a vase

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.

Noun

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vase m (definite singular vasen, indefinite plural vasar, definite plural vasane)

  1. a vase

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Pali

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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vase

  1. vocative singular of vasā (grease)

Verb

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vase

  1. imperative active second-person singular of vasati (to dwell)
  2. imperative active second-person singular of vasati (to clothe)

Swedish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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vase c

  1. sheaf, nowadays mostly as a heraldic symbol. Used in the coat of arms of the House of Vasa ruling Sweden 1523–1654
  2. (Gothenburg dialect) small boy

Anagrams

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