pitcher

noun

ˈpi-chər How to pronounce pitcher (audio)
Definition of pitchernext
as in jug
a handled container for holding and pouring liquids that usually has a lip or a spout please bring me the pitcher of lemonade from the table

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Recent Examples of pitcher The primary reason the Rays trail 2-1 in the best-of-seven series that will resume Saturday is their lack of offense against the Guardians pitchers. — Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Oct. 2026 Of the 12 teams to reach the postseason, the Dodgers ranked 10th in OPS, a measure of both on-base percentage and slugging, while their pitchers ranked eighth in walks plus hits allowed per nine innings. — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026 The games also include plenty of antics, including singing, dancing, and bouncing on the pitcher's mound. — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026 Ohtani got his bat head down to a cutter from former Dodgers pitcher Dustin May on the inside corner. — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pitcher
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pitcher
  1. jug
  2. cup
  3. bottle
  4. ewer
  5. flagon
Noun
  • The shed behind his home is practically a science lab, full of jugs and evaporators and gallons of sap.
    — Rachel Siegel, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Two common types of plastic — polyethylene and polypropylene, used widely to make food containers, packaging, milk jugs and bottle caps — produced the most hydroxyl radicals detected by the researchers.
    — Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of jug
Noun
  • Several employee open cup containers with unapproved screw-top lids were on the shelf, prep table and food prep storage.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Another product catching the attention of health experts, school officials and parents doesn’t come in a cup or a can.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of cup
Noun
  • Suddenly, Smith herself was beside me, raising her own bottle of ginger juice.
    — Mel Studach, Architectural Digest, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Carrying a large pump spray bottle and a small, sturdy brush, Caitlin Abrams stood before two starkly contrasting graves in a modest cemetery in western Vermont.
    — Kimberlee Kruesi, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of bottle
Noun
  • Somewhere between Venice and Paris, just as afternoon tea was served—raspberry tartlets and biscotti squisiti, coffee poured from silver ewers into porcelain cups—JR, the French artist known for his public installations, was starting to freak out.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • Inspired by antiques like cobalt glass, Egyptian glass ewers and hotel breakfast sets and mid-20th-century Italian glassware, Jacobsen came up with the Continental Collection.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 19 Nov. 2025
Definition of ewer
Noun
  • After helping one of the Dutchmen lug a keg of liquor to the game, Rip drinks several flagons, passes out, and wakes up two decades later.
    — John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Under a vaulted ceiling, academics, museum workers, and the octopus-curious passed around a flagon of Kraken Rum.
    — Pearse Anderson, WIRED, 2 Jan. 2023
Definition of flagon

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“Pitcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pitcher. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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