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Definition of Drinking glass
1. Noun. A container for holding liquids while drinking.
Specialized synonyms: Beer Glass, Bumper, Goblet, Highball Glass, Liqueur Glass, Parfait Glass, Rummer, Schooner, Seidel, Jigger, Pony, Shot Glass, Brandy Glass, Brandy Snifter, Snifter, Tumbler, Water Glass, Wineglass
Generic synonyms: Container
Terms within: Glass
Derivative terms: Glass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drinking Glass
Literary usage of Drinking glass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"A large drinking-glass, or vessel. The German bêcher. Fill me л beaker, looke it
be good beert. In others whole «-oods of cypress ..."
2. Lectures on the English Language by George Perkins Marsh (1887)
"A drinking-glass is not a glass to be drunk; but neither is it the glass that
drinks, the day that works, or the wheel that spins. ..."
3. A Student's History of England from the Earliest Times to the Death of Queen by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1902)
"... as hops were not drinking glass, (British Museum ) introduced till many
centuries later. In wealthy houses imported wine was to be had. ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... threads and prunts is illustrated by the development of the " Roemer," so
popular as a drinking-glass, and as a feature in Dutch studies of still life. ..."
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