ship in a bottle

English

WOTD – 16 June 2021

Pronunciation

A ship in a bottle.

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌʃɪp ɪn ə ˈbɒtl̩/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˌʃɪp ɪn ə ˈbɑtəl/, [-ɾəl]
Rhymes: -ɒtəl
Hyphenation: ship in a bot‧tle

Noun

ship in a bottle (plural ships in bottles or ships in a bottle)

An ornament consisting of a model ship inside a glass bottle, usually one with a narrow neck which makes it difficult to see how the ship was put in place.

Hypernyms

impossible bottle

Related terms

bottle episode

Translations

ornament consisting of a model ship inside a glass bottle

Catalan: vaixell en una botella m
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: flessenscheepje n
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: pullolaiva
French: bateau en bouteille m
German: Buddelschiff (de) n, Flaschenschiff n
Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: flaskeskute m or f

Nynorsk: flaskeskute f
Polish: statek w butelce m
Spanish: barco en una botella m
Swedish: flaskskepp (sv) n

See also

message in a bottle

Further reading

impossible bottle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
“ship in a bottle, n.” under “ship, n.¹”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2021.

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