glassful

English

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlæsfəl/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɑːsfəl/
Hyphenation: glass‧ful

Etymology 1

From Middle English glas fulle, glasseful; equivalent to glass +‎ -ful.

Noun

glassful (plural glassfuls or glassesful)

The amount that a glass will hold.

Translations

amount that a glass will hold

Bulgarian: чаша (bg) f (čaša)
Finnish: lasillinen (fi), juomalasillinen (fi)
French: rasade (fr) f
Ido: glasedo (io)
Irish: lán gloine m
Norman: verraïe f (Guernsey), vèrrée f (Jersey)
Spanish: vaso (es) m
Welsh: gwydraid m

Etymology 2

glass +‎ -ful

Adjective

glassful (comparative more glassful, superlative most glassful)

(obsolete) glassy; shining like glass.
- 1604, John Marston, Parasitaster, or The Fawn
  Minerva's glassful shield.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for glassful in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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