vase

noun

US usually

ˈvās 

Canadian usually and US also

ˈvāz 

British usually, Canadian also, and US sometimes

ˈväz 

: a usually round vessel of greater depth than width used chiefly as an ornament or for holding flowers

vaselike

ˈvās-ˌlīk 

 Canadian usually and US also  ˈvāz-;

 British usually, Canadian also, and US sometimes  ˈväz-

adjective

Examples of vase in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Rather, a vase, a table, or a chair can happily hover in the gray area between art and design, a space that young galleries are swiftly moving into. —Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 22 Jan. 2025

Excavations at the 2,000-year-old workshop ruins also unearthed pottery with yellow ochre pigment and vases with multiple shades of red pigment, officials said. —Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2025

Keep scrolling to shop their top picks, including woven trays, floating shelves, ceramic vases, bedding, and more starting at $9. —Ali Faccenda, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Jan. 2025

And Poet 2 gets not the Ming vase but a celadon cup, also Chinese. —Han Ong, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from French, going back to Middle French, borrowed from Latin vās "container, vessel," going back to Italic *wāss- of obscure origin

First Known Use

1629, in the meaning defined above

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vase

noun

ˈvās  ˈvāz 

: an often round container of greater depth than width used chiefly for ornament or for flowers