drinking horn

noun

A drinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn.

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Meanings

noundrinking horn (plural drinking horns)

plural drinking horns

  1. historicalA drinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn.

    It was longer than any drinking horn that Thor had ever seen, but he was not concerned. He was Thor, after all, and there was no drinking horn he could not drain.

    2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 149

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
mead horn

Translations

Czech roh na pití
  • roh na pitídrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
Danish drikkehorn
  • drikkehorndrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
Dutch drinkhoorn
  • drinkhoorndrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
Esperanto trinkkorno
  • trinkkornodrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
Estonian joogisarv
  • joogisarvdrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
Finnish juomasarvi
  • juomasarvidrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
French corne à boire
  • corne à boiredrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
German Trinkhorn
  • Trinkhorndrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
Hungarian ivókürt
  • ivókürtdrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
Icelandic drykkjarhorn
  • drykkjarhorndrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
Irish adharc, beann
  • adharcdrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
  • beanndrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
  • buabhalldrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
  • corndrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
  • corn óildrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
  • radairedrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
Italian corno potorio
  • corno potoriodrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
Japanese 角杯
  • 角杯 (kakuhai)drinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
Korean 뿔잔
  • 뿔잔 (ppuljan)drinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
Norwegian Bokmål drikkehorn
  • drikkehorndrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
Persian شاخ
  • شاخ (šâx)drinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
Polish róg do picia
  • róg do piciadrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
Portuguese corno
  • cornodrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
Romanian corn de băut
  • corn de băutdrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
Russian рог
  • рог (rog)drinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
Scottish Gaelic beann, còrn
  • beanndrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
  • còrndrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
Spanish cuerna
  • cuernadrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
Swedish dryckeshorn
  • dryckeshorndrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
Turkish boynuz kadeh
  • boynuz kadehdrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
Welsh corn yfed, bual
  • corn yfeddrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
  • bualdrinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
Cite this entry
APA

drinking horn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drinking%20horn

MLA

“drinking horn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drinking%20horn. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “drinking horn,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drinking%20horn.

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