Usually means: Container typically used for eating.
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General (33 matching dictionaries)
  1. bowl: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bowl, bowl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bowl, bowl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bowl: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bowl: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bowl, bowl: Wordnik
  7. bowl: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bowl: Wiktionary
  9. bowl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bowl: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bowl: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bowl, bowl: Dictionary.com
  13. bowl: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bowl: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bowl (disambiguation), Bowl (smoking), Bowl (typography), Bowl (vessel), Bowl, The Bowl (Cherokee), The Bowl (Cherokee chief), The Bowl (Douglas): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bowl: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bowl: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bowl: Rhymezone
  19. bowl: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bowl: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. bowl: Free Dictionary
  22. bowl: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. bowl: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. bowl: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. bowl: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bowl: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bowl (disambiguation), The Bowl, bowl: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bowl (disambiguation), The Bowl, bowl: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. bowl: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bowl: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bowl: Archaeology Wordsmith

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bowl, bowl: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Bowl, b'owl: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bowl: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See bowled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
noun:  As much as is held by a bowl.
noun:  (cooking) A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
noun:  A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
noun:  The round hollow part of anything.
noun:  The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
noun:  Part of a pipe, bong, or other smoking implement that holds the material to be burned.
noun:  (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
noun:  (geography) A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
noun:  (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
noun:  (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
noun:  (bowls) The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
noun:  (sports) The action of bowling a ball.
verb:  (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
verb:  (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
verb:  (intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.
verb:  To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
verb:  To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

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