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pottery

pottery

10 2.3
A workshop where people make and heat clay objects like pots and vases
  • noun
  • /ˈpɑːtəri/
translation icon : taller de cerámica
  • 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.

Examples

  • The pottery alone is worth at least 300,000.

  • Look, a pottery shop across the street.

  • Ah, hello, we have made it to the pottery studio.

  • His wife, Meg, she owns a pottery store in town.

  • I wanna get back to the pottery place before it closes.

  • "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.

  • I'll live with Dorothea for another year... and then I'll open a pottery store in Sedona, Arizona.

  • 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

Palesimian pottery
  • Specialized
9.9

Clay pots and objects from Palesimian sites often have geometric designs

How Big

plant
981 4.8
factory
869 1.0
pottery
10 2.3
workshop
61 2.3
studio
310 3.0

Surface Forms

pottery singular
potteries plural

Morphology

pottery = potter (transparent) = pot + ter + er + y

Formed from 'potter' with the suffix '-y' giving a place/product/activity meaning; the relation to makers of pots is clear.

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.