pepper box

Questions about pepper box

What is another word for pepper box?

It depends which pepper box you mean. In the sense “a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper”, the synonyms are pepper shaker, pepper pot. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of pepper box?

WordNet records no antonym for pepper box. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for pepper box come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of pepper box

• Full entry for pepper boxAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for pepper boxWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.