krater

noun

kra·​ter ˈkrā-tər  krä-ˈter 

variants or less commonly crater

: a jar or vase of classical antiquity having a large round body and a wide mouth and used for mixing wine and water

Examples of krater in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Von Bothmer, who died in 2009, had long denied being lax in his acquisition standards or cavalier in accepting the krater. — Tom Mashberg, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023

Just last Tuesday, a bronze bowl, or krater, more than two thousand years old, stolen from a tomb in Macedonia, was handed to Greece's culture minister. — Seth Doane, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2023

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has also relinquished scores of antiquities with questionable provenance to Italy, most famously the 2,500-year-old Euphronios krater and more than a dozen pieces of Hellenistic silver in 2006. — CNN, 5 June 2021

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from Greek krātḗr — more at crater entry 1

First Known Use

circa 1736, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for krater

• cater
• crater
• frater
• freighter
• gator
• grater
• greater
• hater
• later
• plater
• prater
• rater