- [countable] a glass or plastic container, usually round with straight sides and a narrow neck, used especially for storing liquids
- a wine/beer/milk/water bottle
- Put the top back on the bottle.
- a plastic/glass bottle
- To open the bottle, you twist and pull out the stopper.
- He threw his message in a bottle into the North Sea.
Extra ExamplesTopics Cooking and eatinga1- She filled the bottle with water.
- a crowd of youths throwing bottles and stones
- Several bags of broken glass bottles were collected.
- He threw his empty bottle in the recycling bin.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- full
- empty
- broken
- …
- fill
- empty
- open
- …
- cap
- top
- opener
- …
- over a/the bottle
- bottle of
- be on the bottle
- hit the bottle
- take to the bottle
- …
- [countable] (also bottlefulthe amount contained in a bottle/ˈbɒtlfʊl//ˈbɑːtlfʊl/)
- We drank a whole bottle of wine.
- She handed me a bottle of water.
Extra ExamplesTopics Cooking and eatinga1- We discussed the problem over a bottle of wine.
- We washed the food down with a bottle of cheap red wine.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- full
- empty
- broken
- …
- fill
- empty
- open
- …
- cap
- top
- opener
- …
- over a/the bottle
- bottle of
- be on the bottle
- hit the bottle
- take to the bottle
- …
- the bottle[singular] (informal) alcoholic drink
- After his wife died, he really hit the bottle (= started drinking heavily).
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- full
- empty
- broken
- …
- fill
- empty
- open
- …
- cap
- top
- opener
- …
- over a/the bottle
- bottle of
- be on the bottle
- hit the bottle
- take to the bottle
- …
- [countable, usually singular] a bottle used to give milk to a baby; the milk from such a bottle (used instead of mother’s milk)
- It's time for her bottle.
- [uncountable] (British English, informal) courage or confidence, for example to do something that is dangerous or unpleasant synonym nerve
- It took a lot of bottle to do that.
- I didn’t think she’d have the bottle to ask him.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French boteille, from medieval Latin butticula, diminutive of late Latin buttis ‘cask’.
Idioms
See bottle in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarylet the genie out of the bottle
- to do something that has a big effect and after which it is very difficult or impossible to go back to how things were before
- When guns were invented, the genie was let out of the bottle.
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