sauceboat

Questions about sauceboat

What does sauceboat mean?

sauceboat means "a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce".

How many syllables are in sauceboat?

sauceboat has 4 syllables and divides as sa-u-ce-boat under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for sauceboat?

Close synonyms include gravy boat, gravy holder, boat. 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 sauceboat a common word?

sauceboat 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.