Bottle Wine Wine/Beer/Milk Noun Bre ˈbɒtl ˈbɑːtl Put

• a wine/beer/milk bottle
• put the top back on the bottle.
• he drank a whole bottle of wine.
• after his wife died, he really hit the bottle (= started drinking heavily).

bottle

1. a glass or plastic container, usually round with straight sides and a narrow neck, used especially for storing liquids
• a wine/beer/milk bottle
• Put the top back on the bottle.
2. the amount contained in a bottle
• He drank a whole bottle of wine.
3. alcoholic drink
• After his wife died, he really hit the bottle (= started drinking heavily).
4. a bottle used to give milk to a baby; the milk from such a bottle (used instead of mother’s milk)
• See related entries: Babies
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/babies/bottle_2
• It's time for her bottle.
5. courage or confidence, for example to do something that is dangerous or unpleasant
• synonym nerve
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/nerve_1
• It took a lot of bottle to do that.
• I didn’t think she’d have the bottle to ask him.

Extra Examples

• She filled the bottle with water.
• We discussed the problem over a bottle of wine.
• We washed the food down with a bottle of cheap red wine.
• a crowd of youths throwing bottles and stones
• a wine/beer/milk bottle

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Old French boteille, from medieval Latin butticula, diminutive of late Latin buttis ‘cask’.