Meanings
plural crockeries
- uncountableusuallyCrocks or earthenware vessels, especially domestic utensils, collectively.
All the street was lined with wretched hucksters and their merchandise of gooseberries, green apples, children's dirty cakes, cheap crockeries, brushes, and tin-ware; among which objects the people were swarming about busily.
1843, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “From Waterford to Cork”, in The Irish Sketch Book, London; Glasgow: Collins’ Clear-type Press, →OCLC, page 60
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*grewg-“vessel”
- Proto-Germanic*krukkō
- Old Englishcrocc
- Middle Englishcrok
- Englishcrockery
From crocker (“(obsolete) potter”) + -ery (suffix with the sense ‘a class, group, or collection of’ forming nouns). Crocker is derived from crock (“earthenware or stoneware jar or storage container”) + -er (suffix attached to nouns indicating persons whose occupations are indicated by the nouns); crock is from Middle English crok, crokke (“earthenware jar, pot, or other container; cauldron; belly, stomach”) [and other forms], from Old English crocc, crocca (“crock, pot, vessel”) [and other forms], from Proto-Germanic *krukkō, *krukkô (“vessel”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *grewg- (“vessel”).
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- terrissacrocks or earthenware vessels, especially domestic utensils, collectively
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Chinese Mandarin 陶瓷餐具, 陶瓷餐具
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Czech nádobí
- nádobídishes, plates, and other tableware, usually made of some ceramic material used for serving food on and eating it from
Dutch servies
- serviesdishes, plates, and other tableware, usually made of some ceramic material used for serving food on and eating it from
Finnish astiat, astiat
- astiatcrocks or earthenware vessels, especially domestic utensils, collectively
- astiatdishes, plates, and other tableware, usually made of some ceramic material used for serving food on and eating it from
- pöytäastiatdishes, plates, and other tableware, usually made of some ceramic material used for serving food on and eating it from
- talousastiatdishes, plates, and other tableware, usually made of some ceramic material used for serving food on and eating it from
French vaisselle
- vaisselledishes, plates, and other tableware, usually made of some ceramic material used for serving food on and eating it from
German Geschirr, Essgeschirr
- Geschirrcrocks or earthenware vessels, especially domestic utensils, collectively
- Essgeschirrdishes, plates, and other tableware, usually made of some ceramic material used for serving food on and eating it from
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- cocciocrocks or earthenware vessels, especially domestic utensils, collectively
- terragliadishes, plates, and other tableware, usually made of some ceramic material used for serving food on and eating it from
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Norwegian servise
- servisedishes, plates, and other tableware, usually made of some ceramic material used for serving food on and eating it from
Polish zastawa stołowa, serwis stołowy
- zastawa stołowacrocks or earthenware vessels, especially domestic utensils, collectively
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Portuguese louças
- louçasdishes, plates, and other tableware, usually made of some ceramic material used for serving food on and eating it from
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- veselădishes, plates, and other tableware, usually made of some ceramic material used for serving food on and eating it from
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- фая́нсовая посу́да (fajánsovaja posúda)crocks or earthenware vessels, especially domestic utensils, collectively
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- посу́да (posúda)dishes, plates, and other tableware, usually made of some ceramic material used for serving food on and eating it from
Spanish vajilla, loza
- vajillacrocks or earthenware vessels, especially domestic utensils, collectively
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- servisdishes, plates, and other tableware, usually made of some ceramic material used for serving food on and eating it from
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- çanak çömlekcrocks or earthenware vessels, especially domestic utensils, collectively
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- череп'яний посуд (čerepʺjanyj posud)crocks or earthenware vessels, especially domestic utensils, collectively
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Cite this entry
crockery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crockery
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