chinaware

1. 1.

   dishware made of high quality porcelain

   Synonymschina

   Broadercrockery

   Narrowerwillowware

Other forms of chinaware

plural

chinawares·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chinaware

What does chinaware mean?

chinaware means "dishware made of high quality porcelain".

How many syllables are in chinaware?

chinaware has 3 syllables: chi-na-ware. The stress falls on "chi".

What is another word for chinaware?

Close synonyms include china. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chinaware a common word?

chinaware is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.