sugar bowl
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- noun
- /ˈʃʊɡər boʊl/
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- A tall silver and ivory coffeepot, with a matching creamer and sugar bowl, sat on a silver tray on the beveled-glass coffee table.
- sugar bowl and creamer
- sugar bowl and cream pitcher
- sugar bowl and spoons
Examples
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On the table, held down by a sugar bowl, was a note.
Fiction book (1992) -
The sugar bowl was empty.
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The ants got into the sugar bowl.
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Charlie holds the sugar bowl as he searches for the sugar.
Fiction book (1991) -
They emptied the whole sugar bowl.
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Pulling a tray out of a cabinet, he sets two cups, two saucers, and a covered sugar bowl on it.
Fiction book (1991) -
The sugar bowl was filled with sweet white granules, ready for our tea.
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During breakfast, she reached for the sugar bowl to sweeten her coffee.
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He carefully placed the sugar bowl on the table beside the fresh scones.
Synonyms
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A round deep dish with an open top used to hold food or liquid
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'sugar' + 'bowl'—a bowl used for sugar—so knowing the two constituent words gives the full meaning. This literal noun+noun combination is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English compounding patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will readily understand it.
Etymology
The noun sugar bowl comes from the simple picture of a small bowl holding sugar on the table next to a teapot. Because people used that bowl to 'sweeten' their drinks, the name now means a small 'container' for serving sugar.