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vase

noun
🔊/vɑːz/
🔊/veɪs/, 🔊/veɪz/
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  1. a container made of glass, etc., used for holding cut flowers or as an attractive object花瓶；装饰瓶
    • a vase of flowers一瓶花
    Extra Examples
    • A silver vase stood on the mantelpiece.一只银质花瓶摆放在壁炉台上。
    • Greek vase paintings希腊花瓶画
    • a vase of fresh flowers一瓶鲜花
    • flowers arranged in a vase插在花瓶里的花
    Topics Houses and homesb1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • flower
    • china
    • crystal
    • …
    verb + vase
    • break
    • shatter
    • smash
    • …
    vase + verb
    • be filled with something
    • contain something
    • hold something
    • …
    vase + noun
    • painter
    • painting
    preposition
    • in a/​the vase
    • vase of
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    Word Originlate Middle English: from French, from Latin vas ‘vessel’.