vase

Borrowed from Middle French vase, from Latin vās. Doublet of vas.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vɑːz/, (obsolete) /vɔːz/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːz
• (General American) IPA^(key): /veɪs/, /veɪz/, /vɑz/, (obsolete) /vɔz/^[1]

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /vɐːz/, /væes/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [veːz], [väːz], [vaz], [-s], [vɒːz]
• Rhymes: -eɪs

There is some tendency in American English to use the pronunciation /vɑz/ for more expensive and/or elegant items, and /veɪs/ for more everyday ones.

vase (plural vases)

1. An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers.

   a vase of flowers

2. (architecture) The body of the Corinthian capital.

vase (third-person singular simple present vases, present participle vasing, simple past and past participle vased)

1. (transitive) To place in a vase or similar container.
   • 2009, Emily Bobo, Marvin Bell, Fugue, page 21:

     She bought only pastel pencils and vased them in cups, great wooden bouquets in mugs on nightstands and kitchen chairs.

   • 2021, Christine DePetrillo, Wolf Love, page 172:

     After she'd finished, she picked a bouquet of wildflowers and vased them in an old mason jar. That seemed a fitting centerpiece for the table.

• save, AEVs, Aves, aves, Veas, vaes, seva, Esav, Save, VAEs, VESA

Borrowed from French vase, from Latin vās (“vessel”).

• IPA^(key): /vaːsə/, [ˈvæːsə]

vase c (singular definite vasen, plural indefinite vaser)

1. vase

• “vase” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /vaz/ ~ /vɑz/

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From Middle French, from Middle Dutch wase (“mud, silt, wet ground, clod of dirt, grass”), from *Old Dutch waso, from Proto-Germanic *wasô (“moisture, ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“moist, wet”). More at ouze.

vase f (plural vases)

1. silt, mud

Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin vās.

vase m (plural vases)

1. vase

• en vase clos
• la goutte d’eau qui fait déborder le vase
• vase communicant

• “vase”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

vāse

1. ablative singular of vās

From Latin vās (“vessel”).

vase m (plural vases)

1. (Jersey) vase

From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.

vase m (definite singular vasen, indefinite plural vaser, definite plural vasene)

1. a vase

• “vase” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.

vase m (definite singular vasen, indefinite plural vasar, definite plural vasane)

1. a vase

• “vase” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

vase

1. vocative singular of vasā (“grease”)

vase

1. imperative active second-person singular of vasati (“to dwell”)
2. imperative active second-person singular of vasati (“to clothe”)

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vase c

1. sheaf, nowadays mostly as a heraldic symbol. Used in the coat of arms of the House of Vasa ruling Sweden 1523–1654
2. (Gothenburg dialect) small boy

• Evas, Svea, avse