saucer

[US]/'sɔːsə/
[UK]/'sɔsɚ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.small dish for holding a cup; shallow plate;organ of sight

Phrases & Collocations

a tea saucer

flying saucer

cup and saucer

Example Sentences

the candle in the saucer had burned out.

the cat was lapping up a saucer of milk.

The flying saucer is yet an unsolved mystery.

Mrs. Corney rose to get another cup and saucer from the closet.

The milk you put out in the saucer was quickly lapped up.

deciduous plant with large deep green pedate leaves and nodding saucer-shaped green flowers.

The huge “flying saucer” form roof outmatch above the beautiful platform running south and north, full of power and grandeur, it appears glow behind the shinning of the sun.

First, Linc pushed over a chair and jolted a knickknack table off its accustomed site hard enough so that a cup and saucer fell to the rug.

Denis Plunkett, of the British Flying Saucer Bureau, based in Winterbourne, near Bristol, was unable to comment on the video but said there were ways to verify its authenticity.

Real-world Examples

" Maybe it's a flying saucer, " he thought.

Source: The Trumpet Swan

Regular pancakes are already shaped like flying saucers.

Source: Rick and Morty Season 1 (Bilingual)

Well a mug doesn't have a saucer and it's taller.

Source: Grandparents' Vocabulary Lesson

They will grow best if you keep the saucer in a dark place.

Source: British Students' Science Reader

He put down the saucer and poured the glass full of brandy.

Source: Selected Short Stories of Hemingway

I assume the saucer card came up when you played last.

Source: Friends Season 6

There are all kinds of plates, saucers, cups, and silverware at my place.

Source: Advanced American English by Lai Shih-hsiung

They look like flying saucers, which is kind of weird.

Source: Connection Magazine

A civilian pilot named Kenneth Arnold said he saw flying objects that a reporter mistakenly called flying saucers.

Source: CNN Listening Collection July 2020

Hello. Hi. Now, if you'll excuse me, the father of the atomic bomb wants a saucer of milk.

Source: The Big Bang Theory Season 4

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