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NounUS[kuhn-tey-ner]/kənˈteɪnɚ/3 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)containers
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Translations
Noun box, receptacle for holding things
- Spanish
- recipiente
- French
- récipient
- German
- Behälter
- Italian
- contenitore
- Portuguese
- recipiente
- Turkish
- kap
- Russian
- конте́йнер kontɛ́jner
- Arabic
- وعاء wiʕāʔ
- Chinese
- 容器 róngqì
- Japanese
- 容器 yōki
22 more languages
- Dutch
- bak
- Polish
- pojemnik
- Swedish
- behållare
- Greek
- δοχείο docheío
- Korean
- 용기 yonggi
- Indonesian
- kontainer
- Vietnamese
- công-te-nơ
- Hungarian
- tartály
- Portuguese (PT)
- contêiner
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 容器 róngqì
- Albanian
- enë
- Catalan
- contenidor
- Czech
- kontejner
- Danish
- beholder
- Esperanto
- ujo
- Estonian
- mahuti
- Finnish
- säiliö
- Georgian
- ჭურჭელი č̣urč̣eli
- Lithuanian
- konteineris
- Norwegian
- beholder
- Romanian
- container
- Slovak
- kontajner
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Con·tain′er noun
1. One who, or that which, contains; particularly, an artifactual object that is designed to contain some fluid or solid material, object or objects, especially for convenience in transporting the contained objects.
2. a large metallic box designed to hold many smaller boxes or packages, and used for convenience in loading and unloading large quantities of freight, such as on ships, trains, or airplanes.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors