bowl

bowl is a 4-letter English word with 25 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 25 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.
2. noun. Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.
3. noun. The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.
4. noun. The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.
5. noun. A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled.
6. noun. An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.
7. noun. The game of tenpins or bowling.
8. transitive verb. To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.
9. transitive verb. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.
10. transitive verb. To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
11. intransitive verb. To play with bowls.
12. intransitive verb. To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.
13. intransitive verb. To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.
14. noun. the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)

    Synonyms: roll

15. noun. a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods
16. noun. a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding food or liquids
17. noun. a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco
18. noun. a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling
19. noun. a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling
20. noun. a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

    Synonyms: arena, stadium

21. noun. the quantity contained in a bowl

    Synonyms: bowlful

22. noun. a concave shape with an open top

    Synonyms: trough

23. verb. engage in the sport of bowling

    "My parents like to bowl on Friday nights"

24. verb. hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end
25. verb. roll (a ball)

Synonyms

roll, arena, stadium, bowlful, trough

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bowl:

blow

Common word forms

bowls, bowled, bowler, bowles, bowlful, bowling

Words from these letters

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