Cup Definition

kŭp
cupped, cupping, cups
noun
cups
A small, open container for beverages, usually bowl-shaped and with a handle.
Webster's New World
A cup and its contents.
Webster's New World
The bowl part of a drinking vessel.
Webster's New World
The amount a cup holds; cupful: a standard measuring cup holds 8 fluid ounces (c. 237 milliliters) or 16 tablespoons.
Webster's New World
Anything shaped like a cup or bowl.
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verb
cupped, cupping, cups
To shape like a cup.
Cup one's hands.
American Heritage
To curve or shape into a rounded, cuplike form.
To cup one's hands.
Webster's New World
To hold by or as by enclosing with the hand or hands.
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To treat with or subject to cupping.
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Wiktionary
idiom
cup of tea
  • Something that one excels in or enjoys:

    Opera is not my cup of tea.

  • A matter to be reckoned or dealt with:

    Recreational sport is relaxing. Professional sport is another cup of tea altogether.

American Heritage
in (one's) cups
  • Intoxicated; drunk.
American Heritage
in one's cups
  • drunk; intoxicated
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Cup

Noun

Singular:
cup
Plural:
cups

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Cup

Origin of Cup

  • From Old English cuppe, from Late Latin cuppa, probably a form of Latin cūpa (“tub”), from Proto-Indo-European *keup- (“a hollow”). Reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman cupe, from the same Latin source.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English cuppe from Old English from Late Latin cuppa drinking vessel perhaps variant of Latin cūpa tub, cask

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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