stemware

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UK/ˈstɛm.wɛə(ɹ)/US/ˈstɛm(ˌ)wɛɚ/

noun

Drinking glasses that have a stem, such as wine glasses or champagne flutes.

Less commonScrabble 13

Meanings

nounstemware (usually uncountable, plural stemwares)

plural stemwares

  1. uncountableusuallyDrinking glasses that have a stem, such as wine glasses or champagne flutes.

    Selected nonheat-resistant and nonheat-tempered tableware and kitchenware: […] Tableware: […] Machine-made tumblers, goblets and other stemware

    1947, “No. 957.—Pressed and Blown Glassware—Quantity and Value of Shipments: 1945 [table]”, in Morris H[oward] Hansen, compiler, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1947, 68th edition, Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Commerce, →OCLC, page 861
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    [T]he stemware and glassware fragments were recovered from a brick walkway uncovered at a depth of 60 cm, located 30 cm west of the house foundation. The stemwares could have been broken while being transported to or from the house or they could be casualties of entertaining.

    1990, Douglas V. Armstrong, “Artifacts: Reflections of Past Lifeways”, in The Old Village and the Great House: An Archaeological and Historical Examination of Drax Hall Plantation, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica (Blacks in the New World), Urbana; Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 202

    Glancing around at the tables, I noticed they were still perfectly set the way Pierre left them: linen birds of paradise atop each plate, salt and pepper shakers, stemware and flatware, all arranged with precision.

    2013, Lisa Patton, Southern as a Second Language: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN

    It [The Girlfriend Experience] relishes the gleaming curve of fine stemware; there are more crystal goblets filled with red wine than on “The Good Wife,” “Scandal” and the fourth hour of “Today” put together.

    2016 April 7, James Poniewozik, “Review: ‘The Girlfriend Experience,’ a Window Into Upscale Transactional Sex”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Origin

  1. Englishstem
  2. Proto-Germanic*warō
  3. Proto-West Germanic*waru
  4. Old Englishwaru
  5. Middle Englishware
  6. Englishstemware

From stem + -ware.

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Translations

German Stielgläser
  • Stielgläserdrinking glasses that have a stem
Norwegian Bokmål stettglass, stettvarer
  • stettglassdrinking glasses that have a stem
  • stettvarerdrinking glasses that have a stem
Cite this entry
APA

stemware. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stemware

MLA

“stemware.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stemware. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stemware,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stemware.

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