display case

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   a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home

   Synonymscaseshowcasevitrine

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   Narrowertrophy case

Questions about display case

What does display case mean?

display case means "a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home".

What is another word for display case?

Close synonyms include case, showcase, vitrine. 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 display case a common word?

display case 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.