- a vessel used as an ornament or for holding cut flowers
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
vase /veɪs, veɪz, vɑz/USA pronunciation
n. [countable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- a container or vessel, as of glass or porcelain, usually higher than it is wide, used to hold cut flowers or for decoration.
vase
(vās, vāz, väz),USA pronunciation n.
- a vessel, as of glass, porcelain, earthenware, or metal, usually higher than it is wide, used chiefly to hold cut flowers or for decoration.
- Latin vās vessel
- French
- 1555–65
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
vase /vɑːz/ n
'vase' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
antiquity
- broken
- Canopic jar
- crack
- cut glass
- lustre
- urn
- alabastron
- amphora
- annular clock
- ansa
- anthemion
- apothecary jar
- black-figure
- boughpot
- break
- bubble bowl
- Corinthian
- cup
- Daedalid
- doctor
- draw
- embed
- encase
- évasé
- fragment
- frog
- geometric
- get
- half
- hookah
- in situ
- intact
- irreplaceable
- lachrymatory
- lambrequin
- mat
- neck
- nick
- overbalance
- overturn
- part
- pear-shaped
- pedestal
- place
- polychrome
- potiche
- Protogeometric
- pseudamphora
- red-figure