cup
a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,720 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 10,559 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle he put the cup back in the saucerthe handle of the cup was missing
- the quantity a cup will hold also: cupful he drank a cup of coffeehe borrowed a cup of sugar
- any cup-shaped concavity bees filled the waxen cups with honeyhe wore a jock strap with a metal cup
- a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces
- cup-shaped plant organ
- a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl
cup in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Then she gave each of the Twins a cup of buttermilk to drink.
The Dutch Twins · Lucy Fitch Perkins · Chapter 1
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Having once tasted the cup of facile pleasures, he yielded readily to its intoxication.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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I pledge you in this cup of grief, Where floats the fennel's bitter leaf!
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1
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I poured myself out a cup of hot coffee from the flask which Smith, my man, had filled against my return.
The Little Nugget · P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse · Chapter 1
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Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1