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ewer

UK/ˈjuː.ə/US/ˈju.ɚ/
nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Other forms: ewers

A ewer is a large jug for holding water. A ewer and basin, a silver ewer, fill the ewer from the well.

It stood with a basin in a bedroom before anybody had a tap upstairs. A ewer was often the best-looking object in a room that had nothing else in it.

Manufacture nationale de Sèvres · CC0

Definitions of ewer

  1. 1nounewerA large jug for holding water.C2

    “The ewer held enough to wash and shave.”

ewer is a jug.

Where it comes from

Old French ewer, from Latin aquarium, from aqua, water; it is a doublet of aquarium.

  1. Latin

    aquārium

  2. Old French

    ewer

  3. Middle English

    ewer

  4. English, today

    ewer

Built from

  • aqua · Latin — water

From Middle English ewer, from Anglo-Norman - or Old French ewer, eawer (modern French évier), from Latin aquārium, from aqua (“water”). a doublet of aquarium.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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ewer in the wild

  • Vases and ewers made of rock crystal were rare, expensive, and usually decorated with gold and gemstones.

    Rock crystal vase

  • A notable modern ewer is the sailing regatta's America's Cup.

    Pitcher (container)

  • The ewer depicts an event in the Wars in Lombardy, the battle of the River Po in 1431, at which Giovanni commanded the Milanese fleet against the Venetians.

    Lomellini Ewer and Basin

  • Parts of the decoration form definite forms, the ewer rests on a crouching monkey, and the handle begins as the hair of a woman bent forward.

    Memorial Guild Cup (Adam van Vianen)

  • The Blacas ewer is a brass ewer, inlaid with silver and copper, made by an esteemed man, Shuja' ibn Man'a al-Mawsili in Mosul in April or May 1232.

    Blacas ewer

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the aqua family

aquaaquaticaqueduct

ewer — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others