china
Grandmother's best dishes
China is porcelain or ceramic dinnerware, typically fine and delicate, often decorated with intricate patterns.
The term derives from the country where such ceramics were first perfected and exported to Europe.
People distinguish between everyday dishes and their "good china," which is reserved for special occasions and often passed down through families.
We use the good china for holidays and dinner parties.
She inherited her grandmother's china set. (Capitalized China is the country.)
Vessels for serving meals
- dishwarePlates, bowls, cups
- plateFlat dish for food
- bowlConcave food container
- cupSmall drinking container
saucer · teapot · platter · tureen · charger · compote · creamer · pitcher
Whiteite mineral for pottery
- glazeThin lustrous coating
- kilnOven for hardening clay
- firingTerminating employment
- translucentPermitting diffused light passage
vitreous · throwing · jiggering · bisque · underglaze · overglaze · Delft · Wedgwood
Easily broken or harmed
- breakableCapable of shattering
- brittleLiable to shatter
- shatterableAble to fragment
- crackableAble to be broken
thin · vulnerable · chip · crack · precious · valuable · careful · wrapped
Partner or companion
- friendNon-kin mutual bond
- palClose trusted companion
- buddyInformal term for companion
- rhyming slangSubstitution using sound-alike phrases
dinnerware
Vessels for serving meals
cup · saucer · teapot · platter · tureen · charger · compote · creamer · pitcher · serving
kaolin
Whiteite mineral for pottery
translucent · vitreous · throwing · jiggering · bisque · underglaze · overglaze · Delft · Wedgwood · celadon
delicate
Easily broken or harmed
- breakableCapable of shattering
- brittleLiable to shatter
- shatterableAble to fragment
crackable · thin · vulnerable · chip · crack · precious · valuable · careful · wrapped · packed
mate
Partner or companion
- ceramicspottery, cup, bowl, plate, vase
- dining roomdining table, dining chairs, dining bench, buffet, sideboard
- dining room itemssilverware, crystal, glassware, linens, serving trays
- fragile itemsglass, eggs, mirrors, vases, wine glasses
- fragile thingswine glass, drinking glass, glass bottle, glass bowl, crystal goblet
- heirloomsquilts, pocket watch, pocket watches, locket, lockets
chinastoneware
Dense ceramic fired hot
earthenware · pottery · crockery · terracotta · paper plates
chinacast iron
Brittle iron-carbon alloy
unbreakable · plastic · indestructible · rugged · shatterproof
chinaUnited States
North American federal republic
Taiwan · Japan · India · liberal democracies · free world
- Chinese foodCuisine from the East
- Communist ChinaMarxist-Leninist Asian state
- fine chinaDelicate ceramic tableware
- bull in a china shopClumsy person causing damage
- made in ChinaProduced in the PRC
- East China SeaNorthwestern Pacific marginal body