Other forms: goblets
A goblet is a drinking glass on a tall stem. A silver goblet, raise the goblet, a goblet of wine.
It suggests something older and grander than a wine glass, which is why it belongs to banquets and to fantasy. In cooking, a goblet is also the jug of a food processor. The word is a diminutive: a goblet is a little cup.
1noungobletA drinking glass on a tall stem.
“The king raised a golden goblet of wine and toasted his guests.”
goblet is a cup.
Old French gobellet is a diminutive of gobel, a cup, of uncertain further origin.
Old French
gobellet
Middle English
goblet
English, today
goblet
Built from
From Middle English goblet (= Middle Low German gobelet, kobelet (“goblet”)), from Old French gobellet, diminutive of gobel, from or related to the verb gober (“to ingest”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA