plural noun
Bottles are containers, usually made of glass or plastic, with a narrow top for holding liquids.
I need to buy some bottles for the party.
The store sells bottles of water.
American English
How to pronounce bottles
noun · verbA2Common word
BAHdlz
/ˈbɑ.ɾl̩z/
2 syllables · Stress the first syllable.
Form of bottle
Bottles can be the plural noun or the third-person singular form of the verb bottle.
Bottles are containers, usually made of glass or plastic, with a narrow top for holding liquids.
Practice out loudMeanings & examples
plural noun
Bottles are containers with a special top that babies drink from.
The nurse prepared two bottles for the baby.
We washed the baby's bottles after dinner.
third-person singular verb
Bottles means puts a liquid into bottles for storage or sale.
The company bottles its water in California.
This factory bottles juice for local stores.
Useful expressions
to keep feelings inside and not talk about them
She bottles up her anger.
a message put in a bottle and sent into the water
They found a message in a bottle on the beach.
Related words & forms
For the verb, drop the final e before -ed and -ing: bottled and bottling, not bottleed or bottleing.