eating utensil

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   tableware implements for cutting and eating food

   Synonymscutlery

   Broadertableware

   NarrowerforkspoonSporktable knife

   Partshandle

Questions about eating utensil

What does eating utensil mean?

eating utensil means "tableware implements for cutting and eating food".

What is another word for eating utensil?

Close synonyms include cutlery. 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 eating utensil a common word?

eating utensil 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.