pottery
22
2.0
- noun
- /ˈpɑːtəri/
:
cerámica
- She displayed her handmade pottery at the local art fair, attracting many visitors.
- pottery making
- Pottery production
- make pottery
You're doing pottery class on the kitchen floor.
- You're doing pottery class on the kitchen floor.
- Oh, it's just this girl from my pottery class from.
- Well, you can be a person who makes pottery.
- And also it seems like I think I could be a, like a, a Zen teacher of pottery.
- I took a lot of painting, screen printing, drawing, pottery, jewelry, makings, a lot of different art things because I just really enjoyed it.
- But like the pottery teacher had to took divided their class into divided their class into two groups.
Examples
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Um, we're making bowls in pottery class, but mine looks like an ashtray which is kind of funny because I don't smoke.
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Women were responsible for the manufacture of pottery, baskets, and other household items.
Academic text (1990) -
But while I do that, I am going to take you with me on my first ever pottery class.
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I made this in pottery class, when I was five.
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I'm taking a pottery class.
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The young lady with the interest in pottery was still sleeping soundly.
Fiction book (1995) -
However, the women also complain that pottery-making is hard and dirty work.
Academic text (1994) -
Take up pottery.
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Skilled potters turn the pots by hand, using only an old broken pottery shard.
Academic text (2007) -
In pottery class, we learned how to shape clay into beautiful bowls and vases.
Synonyms
3
3.9
The art of making and decorating objects from clay, like pots, baked at very high heat
Compounds
- Specialized
Clay pots and objects from Palesimian sites often have geometric designs
How Skilled
556
3.7
22
2.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pottery comes from pot ('a clay container') and the word potter ('a person who makes pots'), so pottery also means the craft or activity of making and firing clay objects.