vitrine

Questions about vitrine

What does vitrine mean?

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

How many syllables are in vitrine?

vitrine has 2 syllables: vi-trine. The stress falls on "vi".

What is another word for vitrine?

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

vitrine 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.