rice bowl
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- noun
- /raɪs boʊl/
:
tazón de arroz
- In Japan, a traditional meal often includes a rice bowl topped with raw fish or vegetables.
- an iron rice bowl
My Nando's order currently is a spicy rice bowl with lemon and herb chicken breast added.
- My Nando's order currently is a spicy rice bowl with lemon and herb chicken breast added.
- And you know what I love A Thai style pork rice bowl.
- Also, if meatballs aren't your thing, they do a Thai style pork rice bowl.
Examples
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I ordered the spicy chicken rice bowl for lunch, and it was delicious.
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The idea was to convert an existing 1,000 square foot yogurt shop into a new salad, acai, and rice bowl restaurant for either sit-down eating or take away.
Blog text (20) -
So you can put anything you want in this rice bowl, but I will show you guys what I will be putting in mine.
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Mr. Kim lifted his head from his rice bowl, looking very old.
Fiction book (1990) -
Another option at Bowls is a steak or chicken rice bowl.
Blog text (20) -
All in all, my rice bowl tasted much better than I thought it would!
Blog text (20) -
I have been meaning to try this recipe but it's like this salmon rice bowl that has been going crazy on social media so I'm going to try it.
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The only dish worthy is pork cutlet rice bowl.
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Fur laid her chopsticks across her rice bowl; she nudged her plate aside.
Fiction book (1993) -
My Nando's order currently is a spicy rice bowl with lemon and herb chicken breast added.
Synonyms
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1.0
A round deep dish with an open top used to hold food or liquid
A Japanese bowl for drinking tea or serving rice
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Morphology
The primary meaning 'a bowl containing rice' is directly and transparently composed from 'rice' + 'bowl' following a common noun–noun compound pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it. The extended metaphorical sense 'source of income' is culturally grounded and less predictable without exposure, but the literal compositional meaning remains fully transparent.
Etymology
Rice bowl comes from the simple image of a bowl of food: rice in a bowl that keeps a family fed. Because a job is what 'puts food on the table', people began to call a person's job or pay their 'rice bowl', meaning their 'source of income' or 'livelihood'.