ship in a bottle

English

WOTD – 16 June 2021

Pronunciation

A ship in a bottle.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌʃɪp ɪn ə ˈbɒtl̩/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌʃɪp ɪn ə ˈbɑtəl/, [-ɾəl]
• Rhymes: -ɒtəl
• Hyphenation: ship in a bot‧tle

Noun

ship in a bottle (plural ships in bottles or ships in a bottle)

1. An ornament consisting of a model ship inside a glass bottle, usually one with a narrow neck which makes it difficult to see how the ship was put in place.

Hypernyms

• impossible bottle

Related terms

• bottle episode

Translations

ornament consisting of a model ship inside a glass bottle

• Catalan: vaixell en una botella m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: flessenscheepje n
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: pullolaiva
• French: bateau en bouteille m
• German: Buddelschiff (de) n, Flaschenschiff n
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flaskeskute m or f

  Nynorsk: flaskeskute f

• Polish: statek w butelce m
• Spanish: barco en una botella m
• Swedish: flaskskepp (sv) n

See also

• message in a bottle

Further reading

• impossible bottle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “ship in a bottle, n.” under “ship, n.¹”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2021.