saucepan

sauce·pan
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US/ˈsɔsˌpæn/UK/ˈsɔːs.pən/British, Southern, Standard/ˈsoːs.pən/New Zealand/ˈsoːsˌpɛn/

noun

A deep cooking vessel with a long protruding handle and sometimes a lid; used for boiling, stewing and making sauces.

Less commonScrabble 12

Meanings

saucepan1

nounsaucepan (plural saucepans)

plural saucepans

  1. countablecookingA deep cooking vessel with a long protruding handle and sometimes a lid; used for boiling, stewing and making sauces.
verbsaucepan (third-person singular simple present saucepans, present participle saucepanning, simple past and past participle saucepanned)

present singular third person saucepans · participle present saucepanning · participle past saucepanned · past saucepanned

  1. To cook in a saucepan
  2. To hit with a saucepan

Saucepan2

proper nounthe Saucepan
  1. AustraliaastronomyA pot-shaped asterism in the constellation Orion, consisting of Orion's Belt, Orion's Sword, and the star Eta Orionis.

    He also instantly recognised the slant in the line of three stars of the Saucepan which he knew spills the rain in January.

    2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 485

Synonyms & antonyms

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Translations

Afrikaans sauspan, kastrol
  • sauspandeep cooking vessel
  • kastroldeep cooking vessel
Arabic قِدْر, طَنْجَرَة
  • قِدْر (qidr)deep cooking vessel
  • طَنْجَرَة (ṭanjara)deep cooking vessel
Basque kazola
  • kazoladeep cooking vessel
Bengali কড়া
  • কড়া (koṛa)deep cooking vessel
Bulgarian касеро́ла, те́нджера
  • касеро́ла (kaseróla)deep cooking vessel
  • те́нджера (téndžera)deep cooking vessel
Catalan cassó
  • cassódeep cooking vessel
Chinese Mandarin 深平底鍋 /深平底锅, 燉鍋 /炖锅
  • 深平底鍋 /深平底锅 (shēn píngdǐ guō)deep cooking vessel
  • 燉鍋 /炖锅 (dùnguō)deep cooking vessel
  • 煮鍋 /煮锅 (zhǔguō)deep cooking vessel
Czech kastrol
  • kastroldeep cooking vessel
Danish kasserolle
  • kasserolledeep cooking vessel
Dutch steelpan
  • steelpandeep cooking vessel
Esperanto kaserolo, poto
  • kaserolodeep cooking vessel
  • potodeep cooking vessel
Estonian kastrul
  • kastruldeep cooking vessel
Finnish kasari
  • kasarideep cooking vessel
French casserole
  • casseroledeep cooking vessel
German Topf
  • Topfdeep cooking vessel
Greek κατσαρόλι, κατσαρoλάκι
  • κατσαρόλι (katsaróli)deep cooking vessel
  • κατσαρoλάκι (katsaroláki)deep cooking vessel
Hebrew אִלְפָּס
  • אִלְפָּס (ilpas)deep cooking vessel
Hindi सॉस पैन
  • सॉस पैन (sŏs pain)deep cooking vessel
Hungarian lábas, nyeles lábas
  • lábasdeep cooking vessel
  • nyeles lábasdeep cooking vessel
Indonesian panci
  • pancideep cooking vessel
Irish sáspan, scilléad
  • sáspandeep cooking vessel
  • scilléaddeep cooking vessel
Italian pentola, casseruola
  • pentoladeep cooking vessel
  • casseruoladeep cooking vessel
  • tegaminodeep cooking vessel
Japanese ソースパン, 片手鍋
  • ソースパン (sōsupan)deep cooking vessel
  • 片手鍋 (katatenabe)deep cooking vessel
  • 鍋 (nabe)deep cooking vessel
Korean 소스 냄비, 편수 냄비
  • 소스 냄비 (soseu naembi)deep cooking vessel
  • 편수 냄비 (pyeonsu naembi)deep cooking vessel
  • 양수 냄비 (yangsu naembi)deep cooking vessel
  • 냄비 (naembi)deep cooking vessel
Latin cacubus
  • cacubusdeep cooking vessel
Latvian kastrolis
  • kastrolisdeep cooking vessel
Lithuanian puodas
  • puodasdeep cooking vessel
Malay periuk
  • periukdeep cooking vessel
Māori hōpane
  • hōpanedeep cooking vessel
Norwegian kasserolle, gryte
  • kasserolledeep cooking vessel
  • grytedeep cooking vessel
Persian قابلمه
  • قابلمه (qâblmae)deep cooking vessel
Polish rondel
  • rondeldeep cooking vessel
Portuguese panela, caçarola
  • paneladeep cooking vessel
  • caçaroladeep cooking vessel
Romanian cratiță, oală
  • cratițădeep cooking vessel
  • oalădeep cooking vessel
  • caserolădeep cooking vessel
Russian кастрю́ля
  • кастрю́ля (kastrjúlja)deep cooking vessel
Scottish Gaelic sgeileid
  • sgeileiddeep cooking vessel
Slovak rajnica, kastról
  • rajnicadeep cooking vessel
  • kastróldeep cooking vessel
Spanish cacerola, cazo
  • caceroladeep cooking vessel
  • cazodeep cooking vessel
  • pailadeep cooking vessel
  • cacillodeep cooking vessel
Swahili sufuria
  • sufuriadeep cooking vessel
Swedish kastrull
  • kastrulldeep cooking vessel
Tagalog kaserola
  • kaseroladeep cooking vessel
Thai หม้อ
  • หม้อ (mɔ̂ɔ)deep cooking vessel
Turkish tencere, saplı tencere
  • tenceredeep cooking vessel
  • saplı tenceredeep cooking vessel
Ukrainian кастру́ля, ро́ндель
  • кастру́ля (kastrúlja)deep cooking vessel
  • ро́ндель (róndelʹ)deep cooking vessel
Vietnamese cái soong, cái nồi
  • cái soongdeep cooking vessel
  • cái nồideep cooking vessel
  • cái chảodeep cooking vessel
  • cái xoongdeep cooking vessel
Welsh sosban
  • sosbandeep cooking vessel

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