pottery
- noun
- /ˈpɑːtəri/
- At the local pottery factory, visitors can see how various clay items are made and fired.
- pottery factory
- pottery styles
- pottery industry
Ah, hello, we have made it to the pottery studio.
- Ah, hello, we have made it to the pottery studio.
Examples
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The pottery alone is worth at least 300,000.
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Look, a pottery shop across the street.
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Ah, hello, we have made it to the pottery studio.
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His wife, Meg, she owns a pottery store in town.
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I wanna get back to the pottery place before it closes.
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"Who will take care of the pottery workshop when we leave?"
Fiction book (1996) -
- Becky wants a house where she can set up her pottery studio, with enough room left over to raise a family.
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I'll live with Dorothea for another year... and then I'll open a pottery store in Sedona, Arizona.
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Rachel lifted a pottery platter and ran her hand over the cool ripple of its glaze.
Fiction book (1996) -
So we just went to the pottery place to pick up our creations, and now they're all done and like shiny where they've glazed them or do whatever they do.
Compounds
- Specialized
Clay pots and objects from Palesimian sites often have geometric designs
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pottery comes from the simple word pot ('a clay container') plus the ending -ery (which can mean a 'place' or 'group'), so pottery can mean the workshop or factory where pots are made.